by Karl Widerquist | Feb 4, 2014 | Research
AUTHOR’S SUMMARY: There’s no way toward a sustainable future without tackling environmentalism’s old stumbling blocks: consumption and jobs. And the way to do that is through a universal basic income.
Alyssa Battistoni is an editor at Jacobin. Her work has appeared in Salon and Mother Jones, among other venues.
Alyssa Battistoni, “Alive in the Sunshine,” The Jacobin: a magazine of culture and polemic, Issue 13, undated, 2014.
Illustration by Edward Carvalho-Monaghan -the Jacobin
by Karl Widerquist | Feb 4, 2014 | Research
SUMMARY: Frances Coppola explores how increasing automation is fundamentally shifting the nature of work away from ‘making stuff’ towards personal services.
Frances Coppola, “The Changing Nature of Work”, Pieria, May 13, 2013
by Karl Widerquist | Feb 3, 2014 | Research
Tim Harford, “The robots are coming and will terminate your jobs”, The Undercover Economist, December 31, 2013
by Karl Widerquist | Feb 3, 2014 | Research
The author begins with the question, “285,041 people signed for the Universal Basic Income Petition in Europe but why didn’t it reach the million?”
Living Income Guaranteed, “EU’s Basic Income Petition: What NOW?” Living Income: Perfecting Capitalism, January 16, 2014.
by Michael Millar | Feb 2, 2014 | Research
Jacqueline Büchi, “Darüber streitet die Schweiz 2014 [Disputes in Switzerland 2014]”, 20min.ch, January 3 2014.
LANGUAGE: German
by Karl Widerquist | Feb 2, 2014 | Research
Jax Blunt, “Basic income – a solution to welfare?” Making it Up. January 14, 2014.