by Yannick Vanderborght | Oct 6, 2013 | Research
Linda with her free gifts for attending the Bank of Namibia symposium -CGE-Southern Africa
Linda Raven, an American who works in Namibia teaching visiting university students, uses this blog to discuss Karl Widerquist’s two talks on BIG in Namibia in September. Raven contrasts the two talks—one given at a symposium hosted by the central bank, the other given at a community center in a poorer area of Windhoek—and connects these contrasts to the need for BIG in Namibia.
Linda Raven, “Basic Income Grant in Namibia,” Center For Global Education-Southern Africa, Tuesday, October 1, 2013:
See also the following related stories on BI News:
Windhoek, Namibia, “Basic Income Grant: A remedy for poverty and inequality in Namibia?” 24 September 2013.
WINDHOEK, Namibia, “Social safety nets in Namibia: Assessing current programmes and future options,” September 26, 2013.
Elvis Muraranganda, “US academic wants Namibia to go BIG”
by Yannick Vanderborght | Oct 4, 2013 | Research
This paper develops and defends an account of exploitation that is based on the kindred ideas of vulnerability and power, and argues against accounts of exploitation based on distributive justice. One strand of the argument consists in showing that a universal basic income will not normally be a sufficient condition for the removal of exploitation thus conceived (whether or not it is a necessary condition).
References:VROUSALIS, Nicholas (2013), ‘Exploitation, Vulnerability, and Social Domination’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 41(2), 131-157. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/papa.12013/abstract
by Yannick Vanderborght | Oct 3, 2013 | Research
This article reports on Karl Widerquist’s lecture on BIG at the Bank of Namibia conference and on Social Safety Nets on September 26, 2013. The article also reports on the debate over BIG in Namibia. According to Widerquist, the quotes in the article are inaccurate, but they capture the overall message of his talk.
Elvis Muraranganda, “US academic wants Namibia to go BIG,” The Namibian Sun, Wednesday September 25, 2013.
by Yannick Vanderborght | Oct 1, 2013 | News
Photo: Daniela Marquardt / Swedish Radio
[by Karsten Lieberkind]
In this interview (in Swedish), Daniela Marquardt speaks with Daniel Häni who runs a very successful café in Basel, Switzerland, in what was previously a major bank. He is also one of the founders of the Swiss Basic Income movement. This movement has now managed to collect more than 116,000 validated signatures asking for a referendum on Unconditional Basic Income. The signatures will be handed over to the Federal Chancellery in Bern on October 4. This is made possible by the fact that Switzerland has a direct democracy.
Daniel Häni’s message is freedom. He wants us to break the traditional strong link between job and income and ask ourselves what we really want in our lives. An Unconditional Basic Income will secure the kind of freedom that makes is possible to realize whatever goal we may have. We will be able to live a decent life without a paid job or demand reasonable conditions if we do have one.
The proposal asks for a UBI of 2500 SFr a month to be financed through a sales tax and possibly other revenue sources.
Daniela Marquardt, “Är medborgarlön en ekonomisk lösning för Schweiz? [Is Basic Income a solution for Switzerland?],” Swedish Radio P1 ‘Studio Ett’ August 20, 2013
To hear this interview (in Swedish) go to: https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=1637&artikel=5621803
by Yannick Vanderborght | Sep 26, 2013 | News
Philippe Van Parijs (Louvain and Oxford) will give a conference on basic income in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, on October 8, 2013. The conference is organized by a local section of the political party cdH, a left-of-centre party with Christian-democratic roots.
Details: 8 October 2013, 20h, Room Socrate 40 (UCL) in Louvain-la-Neuve. Registration: gaux.michael@gmail.com
Facebook page for the event
