SUMMARY: This article is positive book review of Peter Barnes’s With Liberty and Dividends for All, which proposes a substantial Basic Income, financed mostly by environmental taxes and taxes on common assets.
Herb Kutchins, “Righting capitalism with dividends.” Point Reyes Light, 08/21/2014
SUMMARY: “In recent months, discussion of basic income proposals have become fairly mainstream, but not so mainstream that most people know what the phrase ‘basic income’ means. With that in mind, here are the basics (get it?) of the idea, in [answers to the following] eleven questions.”
1) What is basic income?
2) Who supports basic income?
3) Has a basic income been implemented anywhere?
4) Wouldn’t this destroy the economy?
5) Could a basic income ever happen in the United States?
6) I believe it’s customary to provide a music break? [“Money for Nothing”]
7) Will a basic income save us from the robot uprising?
8 ) What’s the liberal/leftist case for basic income?
9) What’s the conservative/libertarian case for basic income?
10) What’s the liberal/leftist case against basic income?
11) What’s the conservative/libertarian case against basic income?
Dylan Matthews, “Basic income: the world’s simplest plan to end poverty, explained.” Vox, September 8, 2014
Vox
The author discusses the history and current state of various safety net programs in Britain, as well as possible improvements and solutions, such as the “citizen’s income” proposed by the organization Compass.
Tom Clark, “When it comes to our welfare system, we’ve lost the plot”, The Guardian, 27 July 2014
A protest outside the London offices of Love Productions, which made the TV programme Benefits Street. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian
David Atkins, “Basic universal income gets even more traction – from both sides of the aisle”, Washington Monthly, 26 July 2014
This piece outlines current issues with the welfare system and the income redistribution system, more specifically, in France. The authors then propose basic income as a simple solution that has been longstanding in France and continues to be debated among thought leaders in political and economic fields. The article points out the current efforts of the French group “Mouvement Français pour un Revenu de Base.”
Language: French
Jordan Galienne “Quand simplifier le systeme de redistribution deviant un imperative” [When simplifying the redistribution system becomes imperative]. Economie matin.fr, Sept 2, 2014.
David J. Cord, “Is Finland ready for a basic income?”, Helsinki Times, 17 July 2014
