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Malcolm Torry, “Two feasible ways to implement a revenue neutral Citizen’s Income scheme”
May 15, 2015 | Research
Malcolm Torry, the director of the Citizen’s Income Trust, recently published a working paper that shows two different ways which would be financially feasible. Malcolm Torry, “Two feasible ways to implement a revenue neutral Citizen's Income scheme,” April 2015,...
John Danaher, “Sex Work, Technological Unemployment and the Basic Income Guarantee”
May 3, 2015 | Research
John Danaher, “Sex Work, Technological Unemployment and the Basic Income Guarantee”, Journal of Evolution & Technology, February 2014
Jurgen De Wispelaere, “The Struggle for Strategy: On the Politics of the Basic Income Proposal”
Apr 8, 2015 | Research
ABSTRACT: Policy interest in the basic income (BI) proposal is booming, but remarkably little attention is spent on systematically examining political strategies to build robust enabling coalitions in favour of BI. This paper reviews two thorny problems that affect...
Attanasio, Orazio P., Veruska Oppedisano, and Marcos Vera-Hernández, “Should Cash Transfers Be Conditional? Conditionality, Preventive Care, and Health Outcomes.”
Apr 5, 2015 | Research
We study a Conditional Cash Transfer program in which the cash transfers to the mother only depend on the fulfilment of the national preventive visit schedule by her children born before she registered in the program. We estimate that preventive visits of children...
Christopher J. Dew, “Post-Capitalism: Rise of the Collaborative Commons”
Apr 5, 2015 | Research
In order to prevent a sudden and catastrophic collapse of the capitalist system, a Universal Basic Income (UBI) will be required to stabilize a transitional hybrid economy as it moves towards a Commons.
John Bentley, “Full Unemployment”
Apr 2, 2015 | Research
A proposal to eliminate “[e]ffort done by a person, that they would otherwise not do, but for economic compulsion” with a Guaranteed Minimum Income.
David Jeffery, “Review: Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research”
Mar 25, 2015 | Research
Jeffery reviews Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research by Widerquist, Anguera, Vanderborght, and de Wispelaere
Lilly Irani, “Justice for ‘Data Janitors’”
Mar 21, 2015 | Research
Irani reviews Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee’s book The Second Machine Age, in which they argue, among other things, for a basic income as a solution to increasing automation and technology.
Drover, Moscovitch, and Mulvale, “Promoting Equity for a Stronger Canada: The Future of Canadian Social Policy”
Mar 16, 2015 | Research
The Canadian Association of Social Workers produced this report on the state of Canadian social policy, arguing, among other things, for a national basic income scheme.
Donald Hirsch, “Could a ‘Citizen’s Income’ Work?”
Mar 13, 2015 | Research
Hirsch argues that the citizen’s income debate in the UK, while interesting, is still far away from political feasibility.
Pete Higgins, “Why Universal Basic Income is a Better Alternative to the Welfare State.”
Feb 27, 2015 | Research
[Toru Yamamori] Pete Higgins is an independent candidate for Stoke on Trent South, a UK parliament constituency where currently represented a Labour MP. He initiated an online petition for a basic income as well. In his post, he displays reasons for BIG such as a...
Angela Cummine, “A citizen’s income and wealth fund for the UK: Lessons from Alaska”
Feb 25, 2015 | Research
Angela Cummine charts the growth and impact of Alaska's Permanent Fund and dividend – a unique combination of publicly owned wealth fund and basic citizen's income – as these ideas continue to intrude on British political debates about equality, poverty, wealth and...
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