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Review: Bernd Marin and Eszter Zólyomi (eds), Women's Work and Pensions: What is Good, What is Best?

April 30, 2011 Citizens' Income Trust Opinion, Reviews

The chapters of this book started life at a conference organised by the European Centre in Vienna, and it is therefore unsurprising that they contain more about Austria than about any other individual country; but there is still plenty of diversity, and the single country and comparative studies of recent changes in pensions provision contain material on a variety of European countries, including the UK.

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COMMENTARY: A BRIEF PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF BIEN’ 13TH CONGRESS BY PHILIPPE VAN PARIJS

October 23, 2010 Karl Widerquist Op-Ed, Opinion

The Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) held its thirteenth biennial congress in Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 30 through July 2, 2010. USBIG has been a national affiliate of BIEN since 2006. Philippe Van Parijs, director of the Hoover Chair of economic and social ethics at the Catholic University of Louvain and Chair of BIEN’s International Advisory Board, wrote the following

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I HAVE A BASIC INCOME (May 30, 2010)

May 30, 2010 Karl Widerquist Features, Opinion, The Independentarian

[This article was originally published as part of ‘the Basic Income Guarantee Blog on USBIG.net. I reprint it here exactly as it was published then.] In a period of about eight months, I managed to save and invest enough money to get myself a small personal basic income. It was easy—if you get the kind of lucky breaks I got.

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Video: Interview with Karl Widerquist on Basic Income

April 9, 2010 BINews From the web, Interviews, Opinion, Video & TV

In this video interview (still image with audio), Karl Widerquist discusses Basic Income
http://www.basicincomestudies.org/

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OPINION: Essay: On Work

August 30, 2009 Yannick Vanderborght Op-Ed, Opinion

I need to work, in order to make something of my life.
I need to work, in order to gain the recognition of my fellow citizens.
I need to work, in order to feed my nearest and dearest.
I need to work, in order not to be a burden on the public purse.
I need to work, for these and many more reasons …

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REVIEW OF “THE WORLD OWES YOU A LIVING” (from 2003)

October 31, 2003 Karl Widerquist Opinion, The Independentarian

This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in October 2003. A few years ago on April 1, a New York public radio station did an interview with a woman who wrote books entirely by downloading bits and pieces of other people’s writing from the internet. That interview was an April Fool’s Day joke, but as any post-modern

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