Tom Streithorst, “How Basic Income Will Save Capitalism”
Tom Streithorst, “How Basic Income Will Save Capitalism,” Pieria, Oct 30th 2013.
How Basic Income Will Save Capitalism
Matt Bruenig: More than a half dozen blogs about BIG in 2013
Matt Bruenig is a journalist who has written politics, economics, and political theory for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and many other publications. In 2013 he has written ten articles on basic income. Mostly for Demos’s Policy Shop, and also for the Atlantic and his own blog. His writing on basic income covers a wide rage of topics including its cost, its affect on poverty, its political prospects, and so on.
Matt Bruenig’s articles on BIG include:
Matt Bruenig, “Argumentation 101,” MattBruenig: Politics, May 9, 2013. https://mattbruenig.com/2013/05/09/argumentation-101/
Matt Bruenig, “The weak feminist case against a basic income,” MattBruenig: Politics, May 11, 2013. https://mattbruenig.com/2013/05/11/the-weak-feminist-case-against-a-basic-income/
Matt Bruenig, “Is a Universal Basic Income Really Utopian?” Policy Shop, Demos May 12, 2013. https://www.demos.org/blog/universal-basic-income-really-utopian
Matt Bruenig, “How Much Money Would It Take to Eliminate U.S. Poverty?” Policy Shop, Demos, September 23, 2013. https://www.demos.org/blog/9/23/13/how-much-money-would-it-take-eliminate-us-poverty
Matt Bruenig, “How a Universal Basic Income Would Affect Poverty,” Policy Shop, Demos, October 3, 2013. https://www.demos.org/blog/10/3/13/how-universal-basic-income-would-affect-poverty
Matt Bruenig, “Sasha Abramsky’s The American Way of Poverty,” Policy Shop, Demos, October 14, 2013. https://www.demos.org/blog/10/14/13/sasha-abramsky%E2%80%99s-american-way-poverty
Matt Bruenig and Elizabeth Stoker, “How to Cut the Poverty Rate in Half (It’s Easy),” the Atlantic, Oct 29 2013. https://mattbruenig.com/?s=%22basic+income%22
Matt Bruenig, “Have Hope: Conservatives Rationalize Leftist Stuff They Like,” Policy Shop, Demos, November 2, 2013. https://www.demos.org/blog/11/2/13/have-hope-conservatives-rationalize-leftist-stuff-they
Matt Bruenig, “What Would a Basic Income Actually Cost?” Policy Shop, Demos, November 13, 2013. https://www.demos.org/blog/11/13/13/what-would-basic-income-actually-cost
Matt Bruenig, “Thinking About Government Costs in Three Buckets,” Policy Shop, Demos, November 14, 2013. https://www.demos.org/blog/11/14/13/thinking-about-government-costs-three-buckets
Edward Miller, “The Basic Income Is Dead”
Edward Miller, “The Basic Income Is Dead,” Embrace Unity, Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies. Mar 27, 2012. https://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/miller20120327
Philippe Van Parijs, “The Universal Basic Income: Why Utopian Thinking Matters, and How Sociologists Can Contribute to It”
Politics & Society
ABSTRACT: Utopian thinking consists of formulating proposals for radical reforms, justifying them on the basis of normative principles combined with the best possible scientific analysis of the root causes of the problems the proposals are meant to address, and subjecting these proposals to unindulgent critical scrutiny. Such utopian thinking is indispensable, and contributing to it is part of sociology’s core business. This article illustrates these claims by considering one particular utopian proposal: an unconditional basic income paid to every member of society on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement. It summarizes the main arguments that support this proposal, mentions a number of contexts in which it is being taken seriously, and sketches a number of ways in which sociological insights and research are crucially relevant to the discussion of the economic and political sustainability of an unconditional basic income.
Philippe Van Parijs, “The Universal Basic Income: Why Utopian Thinking Matters, and How Sociologists Can Contribute to It,” Politics & Society June 2013 vol. 41 no. 2 171-182
We are not the beautiful, “Interview with the group behind the Swiss Basic Income referendum”
Swiss basic income advocates drop tons of coins on city streets as their campaign reaches an important milestone.
[Craig Axford]
Enno Schmidt, co-founder of Generation Basic Income, joins two members of the organization to share their experiences gathering signatures for Switzerland’s basic income initiative. They also discuss their reasons for supporting this vote and how they think it may transform Swiss society. The basic income issue is now in the hands of Switzerlands’s government, and will be scheduled for a vote after it has assessed its implications.
We are not the beautiful, “Interview with the group behind the Swiss Basic Income referendum”, We are not the beautiful, IdeaBlog, October 23, 2013.
Annie Lowrey, “Switzerland’s Proposal to Pay People for Being Alive”
“Take one income, please.” -Illustration by Kelsey Dake, the New York Times
News of the forthcoming Swiss referendum on the Basic Income proposal continues to make inroads in the popular press; this time across the Atlantic where The New York Times features this important political moment in a positive light. The article runs through the manifold arguments in favour of the idea, elaborates on the different types of proposal that could come into being (i.e. unconditional/means tested), how it appeals both to left and right persuasions, and charts its historical roots both in North America and elsewhere. Significantly, the author recognises its potential and how it could make sense in the United States too (i.e. helping to address its current social ills such as stagnant wages, high and stubborn long term employment): ‘If our economy is no longer able to improve the lives of the working poor and low-income families, why not tweak our policies to do what we’re already doing, but better — more harmoniously? It’s hardly uplifting news, but minimum incomes just might be stimmig [‘coherent, harmonious and beautiful’] for the United States too’. More importantly still, the author senses the idea may just sneak into the Swiss system. Such a hunch reflects a discernable quickening and intensification of the momentum gathering behind the Basic Income proposal.
Annie Lowrey. “Switzerland’s Proposal to Pay People for Being Alive,” The New York Times, November 12, 2013.