by Yannick Vanderborght | Sep 20, 2013 | Research
Bocconi University Press has just published a second edition of “Il reddito minimo universale”, an introductory book on basic income written by Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght (Louvain University). Originally published in French in 2005, this book had been translated into Italian in 2006, with a preface by Chiara Saraceno. The French version is out of print, but still available online.
Further details: https://www.egeaonline.it/editore/catalogo/reddito-minimo-universale-il-ii-edizione.aspx
Full references: VAN PARIJS, Philippe & VANDERBORGHT, Yannick (2013), Il reddito minimo universale, Milano: Università Bocconi Editore EGEA, 192p., 2013, ISBN/EAN: 9788883502040
by Yannick Vanderborght | Sep 15, 2013 | News
Karl Widerquist
The Bank of Namibia (Namibia’s central bank) will discuss the Basic Income Grant at it’s upcoming annual symposium. The focus of this year’s symposium is “Social safety nets in Namibia: Assessing current programmes and future options.” Karl Widerquist, of Georgetown University-Qatar and co-chair of the Basic Income Earth Network, will be one of the featured speakers. He will discuss, “The Basic Income Grant as Social Safety Net for Namibia: Experience and lessons from around the world.” The event will be attended by Namibia and international economists, executives of the Bank of Namibia, and members of the Namibian government.
More information about the symposium is online at: https://www.bon.com.na/Annual-Symposium.aspx
Information about the speakers is online at: https://www.bon.com.na/Annual-Symposium/Annual-Symposium-Speakers.aspx
by Yannick Vanderborght | Sep 14, 2013 | News
In a recent interview (published by the daily De Morgen, 7 September 2013), one of Belgium’s most prominent policy analysts, Professor Carl Devos (Ghent University), argues that Flanders needs a “new left alternative” under the form of a “big leftist party”. Today, several parties such as the Green Party (Groen!), the Socialist Party (sp.a), and the smaller Worker’s Party (Pvda), are competing against each other at the left side of the political spectrum. Devos’s suggestion has triggered many reactions. In an opinion piece published by the same daily newspaper (De Morgen) on 10 September 2013, Ferdi De Ville, a postdoctoral research assistant at Ghent University, maintains that basic income should be at the core of this hypothetical “new left alternative”. Basic income, he writes, would make such alternative more attractive.
The opinion piece (in Dutch) is available at: https://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/2461/Opinie/article/detail/1701689/2013/09/10/Het-verdriet-van-links-we-zijn-alles-gaan-bekijken-door-een-kapitalistische-bril.dhtml
by Yannick Vanderborght | Sep 11, 2013 | News
The Swiss popular initiative for a basic income has officially collected 116,000 certified signatures. Those signatures were necessary to trigger a referendum on introducing Basic Income in Switzerland. The initiative will be officially submitted on October 4th, 2013, in Bern, and the referendum will be held within two years. As was mentioned in earlier posts on BINEWS, the proposal does not specify the amount of the basic income, but it would enshrine the principle in Switzerland’s constitution.
For further info on the submission, see: https://bien.ch/fr/page/actualites
by Yannick Vanderborght | Sep 7, 2013 | Research
This opinion piece discusses how to get people to sign the EU petition for basic income.
Henrik Roseno, “Unconditional Basic Income and Joint Division of Labor is a natural evolution of democratic societies,” Transformation.dk, September the 3rd, 2013
