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Executive Committee posts and postholders ChairSarath Davala Sarath Davala is an Indian sociologist based in Hyderabad, India. He co-founded India Network for Basic Income and Mission Possible 2030 - both organisations working on basic income related issues. From 1993...
Because the 2020 BIEN congress has been cancelled because the of the coronavirus crisis, the General Assembly has also been cancelled: an eventuality permitted by the UK's Charity Commission for this year only. The Executive Committee has passed a resolution to...
Forty years ago today—February 7, 1980—was a small milestone for the Universal Basic Income (UBI) movement: Milton and Rose Friedman dedicated an episode of their television show to a form of basic income guarantee called the Negative Income Tax. This episode might...
This page contains a list of links to free versions of pretty much everything I’ve ever written. Free versions are possible because most publishers allow authors to post early versions of their publications on their personal website. Where the published version is...
GiveDirectly formed a $30 million fund to benefit 20,000 Kenyans in the most important and thorough study about UBI in history
The website, Revista Libertalia, recently published an article in Spanish with extensive quotes from an interview conducted with me. The article is entitled, “Voces sobre la renta básica (II): ¿Está justificada? [Voices on basic income (II): Is it justified?].” It's...
Minho, Portugal. Picture credit to: Notícias ao Minuto Last Wednesday there was a Conference on Basic Income at Universidade do Minho, called “Rendimento Básico: uma Ferramenta para uma Europa Social? [Basic Income: a Tool for a Social Europe?]”. It was...
"The answer is blowing in the wind". Picture credit to: BBC News. It’s official. Twenty-seven Nobel Laureate economists, four former chairs of the Federal Reserve, fifteen former chairs of the Council of Economic Advisers and two former secretaries of the US...
Erik Olin Wright, a long-term advocate of Universal Basic Income and one of the most influential sociologists today, recently announced that his doctors have advised him that he has only a few weeks left to live. (Update: he passed away on January 23.) He is best...
The L’Ecole des Hautes Estudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Social Sciences University in France) is organizing and promoting a doctoral series of conferences about basic income. This series of events started on the 10th of October 2018, on a venue at the CEVIPOF...
The plenary sessions of the BIEN Congress 2018 are now available to view, here (all). Individually, the recordings can also be watched in the following embedded links. Philip Alston, "Should We Frame Basic Income as a Human Right?" Louise Haagh, "The...
What do we do when the future we want is precluded by precarious economic conditions or a staleness social system?
A team of three University of Cambridge scholars have released a CFP for a conference on the history of the idea of basic income, to be held on January 14, 2019.
A new documentary about Basic Income, RBUI, nuestro derecho a vivir, in english UBI, our right to live, had its debut in Madrid, on May 12th in the Auditorium of the Cultural Center “Pozo del Tío Raimundo” during the Foro Humanista Europeo 2018. The documentary was...
This essay was originally published on Basic Income News in May 2011. In March 2011, Brazilian Senator (and tireless campaigner for BIG), Eduardo Suplicy told me and other members of the USBIG and BIEN Committees that he would soon be meeting with President...
"There will always be hope". Picture credit: Alex Gi. On the 11th and 12th of October 2018, the University of Freiburg, in Germany, holds an interdisciplinary Conference titled “Basic Income and the Euro-Dividend as Sociopolitical Pillars of the EU and its...
What should a government faced with an unmanageable level of unemployment do when conventional policy has failed to resolve the issue?
This essay is reprinted from OpenDemocracy, 18 October 2017 Support for unconditional basic income (UBI) has grown so rapidly over the past few years that some might think the idea appeared out of nowhere. In fact, activists have been floating the plan — and other...
Meeting of the Basic Income Network, in Italy On Friday, 10 November 2017, the Italian Basic Income Network - Italy (BIN Italia) organizes a day-to-day discussion forum about basic income, which will feature, among others, the participation of the philosopher...