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Opinion Posts
Here you will find articles expressing opinions about current issues in the Basic Income debate. Opinions expressed are not necessarily the opinions of BIEN.
Podcast on Basic Income #7 (13/11/25)
An audio podcast on the lastest news of last week.
Tracy Shildrick, Robrt MacDonald, Colin Webster and Kayleigh Garthwaite, Poverty and Insecurity: Life in low-pay, no-pay Britain
Tracy Shildrick, Robrt MacDonald, Colin Webster and Kayleigh Garthwaite, Poverty and Insecurity: Life in low-pay, no-pay Britain, Policy Press, 2012, v + 256 pp, pbk, 1 847 42910 0, £26.99, hbk, 1 847 42911 7, £70 There is no better way to learn about the effects of...
Podcast on Basic Income #6 (13/11/18)
An audio podcast on the lastest news of last week.
Allan Sheahen, Basic Income Guarantee: Your right to economic security
Allan Sheahen, Basic Income Guarantee: Your right to economic security, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, xv + 204 pp, 1 137 00570 0, pbk, £17.50, 1 137 34788 6, hbk, £62.50 Each adult who files an income tax return receives an annual ‘BIG’ [Basic Income Guarantee] or...
Podcast on Basic Income #5 (13/11/11)
An audio podcast on the lastest news of last week.
OPINION: One step towards dignity
The 81 senators, representing the 27 units of the Federation, 16 political parties, including two former presidents of the Republic, one current and two former presidents of the Senate, two likely candidates for the Presidency, 20 ex-governors and 18 ex-mayors, have signed a letter to president Dilma Rousseff, handed in by me on October 25th, with a proposal.
Karl Widerquist, Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income: A theory of freedom as the power to say no
Karl Widerquist, Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income: A theory of freedom as the power to say no, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 1 137 27472 4, hbk, xiv + 241 pp, £62.50 The message of this book is simple: We are not free; we ought to be; and a Citizen’s...
Podcast on Basic Income #4 (13/11/04)
An audio podcast on the lastest news of last week.
OPINION: Means-testing in Cyprus
The President of Cyprus has announced the establishment of a ‘Guaranteed Minimum Income’. ‘Beneficiaries will be all of our fellow citizens who have an income below that which can assure them a dignified living.’
Podcast on Basic Income #3 (13/10/28)
An audio podcast on the lastest news of last week.
Interview: Daniel Häni on the Swiss Initiative
Dorothee Schulte-Basta spoke with Daniel Häni, one of the activists on the inititiative for Basic Income in Switzerland
Podcast on Basic Income #2 (13/10/21)
An audio podcast on the lastest news of last week.
