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Herb Kutchins, “Righting capitalism with dividends.”
Sep 14, 2014 | Research
SUMMARY: This article is positive book review of Peter Barnes’s With Liberty and Dividends for All, which proposes a substantial Basic Income, financed mostly by environmental taxes and taxes on common assets. Herb Kutchins, “Righting capitalism with dividends.” Point...
Dylan Matthews, “Basic income: the world's simplest plan to end poverty, explained.”
Sep 13, 2014 | Research
SUMMARY: “In recent months, discussion of basic income proposals have become fairly mainstream, but not so mainstream that most people know what the phrase ‘basic income’ means. With that in mind, here are the basics (get it?) of the idea, in [answers to the...
Tom Clark, “When it comes to our welfare system, we’ve lost the plot”
Sep 13, 2014 | Research
The author discusses the history and current state of various safety net programs in Britain, as well as possible improvements and solutions, such as the “citizen's income” proposed by the organization Compass. Tom Clark, “When it comes to our welfare system, we’ve...
David Atkins, “Basic universal income gets even more traction – from both sides of the aisle”
Sep 12, 2014 | Research
David Atkins, “Basic universal income gets even more traction – from both sides of the aisle”, Washington Monthly, 26 July 2014
Jordan Galienne “Quand simplifier le systeme de redistribution deviant un imperative” [When simplifying the redistribution system becomes imperative]
Sep 11, 2014 | Research
This piece outlines current issues with the welfare system and the income redistribution system, more specifically, in France. The authors then propose basic income as a simple solution that has been longstanding in France and continues to be debated among thought...
David J. Cord, “Is Finland ready for a basic income?”
Sep 11, 2014 | Research
David J. Cord, “Is Finland ready for a basic income?”, Helsinki Times, 17 July 2014
Matt Zwolinski, “BIG and BIGger – On the Feasibility of a Basic Income”
Sep 10, 2014 | Research
Matt Zwolinski, “BIG and BIGger – On the Feasibility of a Basic Income” Cato Unbound: The Basic Income and the Welfare State. September 2, 2014
Aaron Smith & Janna Anderson, "AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs"
Sep 10, 2014 | Research
[Craig Axford] Experts responding to a Pew Research survey were nearly evenly split on the question of whether or not robots and digital agents would displace a significant number of workers between now and 2025, creating huge knock on effects for the economy as a...
Dylan Matthews, “A guaranteed income for every American would eliminate poverty — and it wouldn't destroy the economy”
Sep 9, 2014 | Research
Dylan Matthews, “A guaranteed income for every American would eliminate poverty — and it wouldn't destroy the economy”, Vox, 05 August 2014
Benjamin Shingler, "Money for nothing: Mincome experiment could pay dividends 40 years on"
Sep 8, 2014 | Research
[Craig Axford] Residents of Dauphin, Manitoba who benefited from Canada's experiment with a basic income guarantee look back upon it fondly. Research conducted four decades after the so-called "Mincome" experiment found the project resulted in a significant decline...
Jaxpagan, “Your Services Are No Longer Required – The Coming "Great Idleness.”
Sep 5, 2014 | Research
SUMMARY: This article argues that there will come a day when most human labor is outmoded, replaced by machines. The author the argues, “And what do we do on that day - or rather, on the daisy-chain of days, months and years that Great Shedding will likely fall...
Peter Barnes, “Why you have the right to a $5K dividend from Uncle Sam.”
Sep 4, 2014 | Research
SUMMARY: Oil tax revenue funds Alaska’s Permanent Fund, which distributes dividends equally to state residents. Peter Barnes wants a nationwide dividend system (or basic income) based on shared assets like our atmosphere. Peter Barnes, “Why you have the right to a $5K...
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