by Harry Pitts | Oct 16, 2014 | Research
In this interview with Stanislas Jourdan, Guy Standing discusses how the basic income would remedy some of the insecurities experienced by the ‘precariat’.
The full article is available here:
Stanislas Jourdan, “Guy Standin
g: “The Precariat is growing angry”, Boiling Frogs, 8th November 2012
by Toby | Oct 16, 2014 | Research
Steve Randy Waldman, “The political economy of a universal basic income.”, interfluidity, 2014 September 19
by Harry Pitts | Oct 15, 2014 | Research
In this excerpt from David DeGraw’s book, The Economics of Revolution, he suggests that the money the US government used to stimulate the economy through quantitative easing constituted a hand-out to the rich, and would have been better directed elsewhere, namely towards the provision of a basic income. He writes that, ‘If they truly wanted to stimulate the economy, they could have given the $4 trillion to every non-millionaire household, which would have been $40,000 per household, or they could have given 114,285,714 people $35,000 each. If we clawback QE from the ultra-rich, we can eliminate poverty and guarantee a Living Income to every person over the age of 18.
The full article is available here:
David DeGraw, “The Coming Revolution: Evolutionary Leap or Descent Into Chaos and Violence?”, The Economics of Revolution, 7th October 2014
by Harry Pitts | Oct 15, 2014 | Research
In this this interview with Sarah Jaffe, Naomi Klein explains how the basic income can help move communities towards greener ways of living by making possible productive activities and relationships with nature that are not dependent upon presently existing economic motives.
The full article is available here:
Sarah Jaffe, “Naomi Klein on
Cause of Climate Crisis: “Capitalism Is Stupid””, Truthout, 24th September 2014
by Jenna van Draanen | Oct 15, 2014 | Research
John Cunningham, “Basic Income and the 21st Century Working Class.” Worker’s Liberty. September 23, 2014.