by Andre Coelho | Feb 1, 2015 | News
Bernard Maris was killed at Charlie Hebdo, earlier on 7th January this year. Besides a recognized author of several books on economics and social affairs and regular presence on French television and radio, Bernard was a defender of the basic income, having published recently over it on Charlie Hebdo (on December 2013, with the title “Why is the basic income a necessity of the post-capitalist society“).
His death motivated Christian Noyer, the governer of the Bank of France, to pay him tribute, by saying: “Barnard Maris was a man with a noble heart, cultured, with great tolerance. We will greatly miss him”. Magazines Info 3 (Germany) and The Independent have reported his murder, highlighting his life achievements and both referring to his support to the basic income concept.
Bernard wrote recurrently on economics, globalization and, while an euro supporter at first, came to be an euro skeptic, mainly due to its flawed monetary union design. On basic income, he believed its importance lay in separating work from income, which might constitute the spark that will destroy capitalism.
More information at:
[FR] “Our tribute to Bernard Maris“, French Movement for Basic Income
[DE] Jens Heisterkamp, “Defender of basic income among murder victims [Grundeinkommens – vordenker Bernard Maris unter den mordopfern]“, Info 3, 15 January 2015
Pierre Perrone, “Bernard Maris: radical economist and Charlie Hebdo columnist who was murdered in the attack on the magazine“, The Independent, 15 January 2015
by USBIG | Nov 9, 2014 | News
Karl Widerquist
Karl Widerquist, co-chair of BIEN, Associate Professor at SFS-Q, Georgetown University, and author of Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income: A theory of freedom as the power to say no, will speak about basic income in five cities in the United Kingdom this November 14-18. The dates of his talks are:
Friday, November 14, 2014, 6pm, London School of Economics Development Society, 32 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A 2HD
Saturday November 15, 2014 2:15pm, Ruskin House, 23 Coombe Rd, Croydon CR0 1BD
Sunday, Oxford Wine Bar, South Parade, Oxford, UK, details to be announced
Monday, November 17th, 5:00pm – 7:00pm: “Basic Income: Can it save us?”. Speakers: Karl Widerquist (Georgetown University), Malcolm Torry (Director, Citizen’s Income Trust). Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Tuesday November 18, Centre for Citizenship, Globalization and Governance, the University of Southampton.
by Karl Widerquist | Jun 16, 2014 | Research
SUMMARY: Guy Standing’s book, The Precariat: A New and Dangerous Class, addresses labor market insecurity and argues for basic income as a solution. The journal, Global Discourse, devotes an entire issue to the Precariat. According Matthew Johnson, who was the guest editor of the special issue, “This issue of Global Discourse seeks to explore the nature, shape and context of precariat, evaluating the internal consistency and application of the concept, particularly with regard to: changes in the sociology of class; democracy, participation and representation; the relationship between precariat and multitude; the means by which precariat might become a ‘class-for-itself’; place, migration and globalization; poverty and precarity; the subjective experience of precarity, and forms of resistance. The articles published reflect the extent, both with regard to paradigmatic engagement and site of study, to which the concept has permeated the consciousness of academics and those subject to precariousness (indeed, the former appear increasingly to be included in the latter).”
Matthew Johnson (editor), “Special Issue: The Precariat.” Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought, Volume 3, Issue 3-4, 2013
by Karl Widerquist | May 7, 2014 | Research
Barbara Jacobson
SUMMARY: Every month the New Internationalist invites two experts to debate, and then invite readers to join the conversation online. This April Barb Jacobson and author and Francine Mestrum debate basic income. YES: Barb Jacobson is co-ordinator of Basic Income UK. A former member of Wages for Housework, she has been active in community organizations since 1991, mainly around housing and health. She works for the Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Association in central London. NO: Francine Mestrum has a PhD in social sciences. Her research concerns social development, poverty, inequality, globalization and gender relations. She is co-ordinator of Global Social Justice and represents CETRI (Centre Tricontinental) in the International Council of the World Social Forum.
Francine Mestrum
Barb Jacobson and Francine Mestrum, “Should there be a basic income?” The New Internationalist Magazine, April 2014
by Karl Widerquist | Aug 28, 2013 | Research
Jason Burke Murphy – USBIG – August 2013
In The European, Basic Income Earth Network co-founder Guy Standing argues that globalization and technological developments pose an opportunity if the precariat, and those who may join it, work together for economic security, including a BIG. He also seeks to counter frequent objections to BIG.
At the end of the article, there are links to 3 other economists, who were also part of a series on the “Changing Nature of Work.” One of them, by Bo Cutter, mentions BIG dismissively, argues that government should promote jobs, then asserts that it won’t do so anytime soon.
Guy Standing, “Pleasure Before Business,” The European; July 28th, 2013.
