Credit to: AT Kearney. Courtney McCaffrey and others from AT Kearney published an article on the debate around Universal Basic Income (UBI) in markets throughout the world. Politicians, in both Europe and North America, are winning on campaign trails with talk...
DENMARK: Political Party Alternativet discusses basic income at annual convention, creates working group
The Alternative Facts of Denmark’s Basic Income Movement: The green political party The Alternative has adopted basic income as an aspirational goal and established a working group to investigate a precise model and implementational strategy for the policy.
Review: Parijs presents ‘Basic Income’ book at Stanford
Philippe Van Parijs, co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network, presented his latest book on Basic Income at Stanford University.
Review: ‘Radical proposal’ provides basic income details
This book revolves around two focal points: freedom, and Basic Income; and it might best be understood as a meditation on the relationship between them.
Philippe Van Parijs lectures on “Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy”
In honor of the launch of the book, Van Parijs has delivered several public lectures, beginning with events in Copenhagen, Denmark (March 28) and Stockholm, Sweden (March 30).
BIEN Stories: Richard Caputo
Richard K. Caputo (Professor of Social Work) My colleague Professor Vicki Lens recommended that I check out the US Basic Income Guarantee (USBIG) Network which was planning its first annual Congress for March 8-9, 2002 in New York City. Professor Lens was familiar...
BIEN is 30: Interview with Philippe Van Parijs
How has BIEN changed in the past 30 years? What have been its biggest challenges, most difficult times, and greatest successes? And what’s next?
VIDEO: BIEN’s 30th Anniversary Reunion
This fall, BIEN celebrated 30th anniversary of its founding. Some of its founders convened for a conference at Université catholique de Louvain for the occasion. Watch the videos here.
BIEN Profiles: Karl Widerquist, former co-chair
Karl Widerquist Website: widerquist.com Email: karl@widerquist.com Karl Widerquist was vice-chair of BIEN from May 2017 to August 2018, after serving as co-chair from October 2010 to May of 2017, and as a member of the executive committee from 2004 to 2010. He is a...
SPAIN [Basque Country]: Two MPs of Basque Country have long been supporting Unconditional Basic Income
On September 25th, Elkarrekin Podemos, a new leftist party with basic income in its platform, won 15% of seats in Basque Parliament. The Socialist Party received 12%, and the centre-right Nationalist Party won a minority government with 37%. Earlier this year in the...
QUEBEC, CANADA: Liberal Party’s Ideas Forum to address Minimum Income
The fourth annual Forum des Idées Pour le Québec, taking place at Champlain College September 23-25, will focus on social policies–including a special session devoted to the idea of a guaranteed minimum income for Canada and Québec.
BELGIUM: BIEN Celebrates 30th Anniversary (Oct 1)
An event commemorating the anniversary of BIEN’s founding will take place on Saturday, October 1 in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium–the location of BIEN’s first meeting 30 years ago. The anniversary event has been organized by the Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics at the Université Catholique de Louvain in collaboration with BIEN.
IRAN: Parliament slashes cash subsidies to citizens
Iran’s de facto basic income will become means-tested.
BELGIUM and BRAZIL: Basic Income Advocate, Eduardo Suplicy Receives Honorary Degree from the Catholic University of Louvain
Former Brazilian Senator and long-time campaigner for basic income, Eduardo Suplicy received an honorary degrees from the Catholic University of Louvain earlier this year. The degree came for work as an "utopiste pour le temps présent" (utopian for the present). Also...
ITALY: Max Weber Multidisciplinary Conference on The Future of Basic Income Research
On the 26th and 27th of June 2015, in Badia Fiesolana, Florenza, Italy, a conference in Italy attempted to answer one complex question: what is the future of Basic Income (BI) research? The conference at the European University Institute approached this question...
EUROPE: Council of Europe Releases Largely Pro-Basic Income Report
The Council of Europe has released an EU-funded report titled Living in dignity in the 21st century: Poverty and inequality in societies of human rights à the paradox of democracies in which a large group of researchers sought to determine what it will take to live...
A short history of the Basic Income idea
[The video that summarises the following in 8 minutes is here. ] No, the idea of an Unconditional Basic Income is not to be found in Thomas More’s Utopia. Nor was it first formulated by Thomas Paine. As far as we know, it was first proposed at the local level by...
Florence, Italy: Conference: The Future of Basic Income Research, Call for Abstracts
The Max Weber Programme at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy has released the following call for abstracts for the following conference: on “The Future of Basic Income Research:” The Max Weber Programme at the European University Institute is proud...
INTERNATIONAL: Basic Income makes unprecedented political progress
The momentum behind Basic Income has been gaining ground for some time now, with more and more media attention including articles in publications such as The Economist and the Washington Post and a community on reddit that just passed 20,000 subscribers and is still...
Tokyo, JP: Basic Income in Japan: Towards New Forms of Social Protection?
This book launch conference takes place on Friday October 31, 2014, at the occasion of the publication of “Basic Income in Japan. Prospects for a Radical Idea in a Transforming Welfare State“, co-edited by Yannick Vanderborght & Toru Yamamori. This collective...