Research posts
Here you will find notices about research and research results relating to Basic Income
Thomas Cool, “The pure evil of a Basic Income.”
SUMMARY: This article argues that Basic Income proponents claim to advance the cause for the disadvantaged, but in fact they block strategies that would really help the one billion most disadvantaged people on the planet, concluding, “Do we see pure evil here or not?”...
Jon Perry, “Implementing a Basic Income via a Digital Currency.”
Jon Perry, “Implementing a Basic Income via a Digital Currency.” The Decline of Scarcity, March 24, 2014.
David Jenkins, “Citizen Income: Potential Ways Forward.”
SUMMARY: This article reports about a “People’s Parliament” debate on basic income, which took place in London on March 4th. The event, chaired by Labour MP John McDonnell, is part of a wider series of events that form part of a People’s Parliament designed to...
James Robertson, James Robertson Newsletter
In an editorial in this newsletter, Robertson argues, “Replacing much of the existing benefits system with a citizen's basic income will support this shift in the nature of work.” James Robertson, James Robertson Newsletter No. 46 - April 2014
Najma Sadeque, “Profits to every citizen.”
SUMMARY: Najma Sadeque argues that Pakistan should introduce a dividend based on the Alaska model. Sadeque is a former journalist and currently director of The Green Economic Initiative at Shirkat Gah, a rights and advocacy group. Najma Sadeque, “Profits to every...
Tanja Milevska, “Van Parijs: An unconditional basic income in Europe will help end the crisis [Interview].”
SUMMARY: Philippe Van Parijs is a Belgian philosopher and professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL). He talked to EurActiv’s Tanja Milevska. In this interview given after the conference on the “Unconditional Basic Income” (UBI) organised in the European...
Apprehending Postscarcity, “Where Do We Go From Here? Martin Luther King Jr. on Basic Income”
Apprehending Postcarcity, “Where Do We Go From Here? Martin Luther King Jr. on Basic Income”, Apprehending Postscarcity, 3rd October 2011
Tanja Milevska, “EU ‘has the power’ to put in place a universal basic income.”
SUMMARY: This article gives an extended report on the April 10 conference, dedicated to the Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) in Europe and on the movement for UBI connected with the conference. The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) hosted the conference,...
Jax Blunt, “Basic income- the case against it”
Jax Blunt, “Basic income- the case against it”, Making it Up [https://liveotherwise.co.uk/makingitup/], 7th March 2014
Véronique de Rugy, “What’s the welfare initiative uniting liberals and conservatives?”
[Jason Murphy] SUMMARY: The PBS NewHour's "Making Sen$e" column gives us more from their interview with Libertarian-leaning economist Veronique de Rugy. Excerpts were found in the PBS video we posted earlier. The editor notes that de Rugy "doesn't sound that different...
Paul Solman, “Why America’s favorite anarchist thinks most American workers are slaves [interview of David Graeber].”
Following up to their 9-minute story on basic income, the PBS News Hour (United States) has published a text interview with David Graeber on the topic of basic income. Graeber, a professor of anthropology and the London School of Economics, is a leader of the Occupy...
Felix Oberholzer-Gee, “Will a guaranteed income ever come to America?”
[Ginny Holbert] SUMMARY: In a follow up to their video, PBS Reports, the Swiss native and Harvard Business School professor suggests that Europeans and Americans have differing beliefs about the causes of rising income inequality. Because Europeans are more likely to...
