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The Economist, “The check is in the mail: A government-guaranteed basic income”
Nov 20, 2013 | Research
This article begins a rather philosophical discussion of basic income with the following, “What if America were to scrap all its anti-poverty programmes—welfare, food stamps, unemployment benefits, the works—and replace them with an unconditional basic income (UBI)...
Matthew Byrd, “Guarantee income, eliminate poverty”
Nov 19, 2013 | Research
Matthew Byrd, “Guarantee income, eliminate poverty,” the Daily Iowan, November 14, 2013.
United Kingdom: Mehdi Hasan, “We Could Fix Our Economy by Giving Every Man, Woman and Child £6,000 in Cash”
Nov 19, 2013 | Research
[Craig Axford] The Bank of England’s quantitative easing (QE) policy has generated £375 billion in support for the financial sector, and 40% of that money has ended up in the hands of the top 5%. Mehdi Hasan argues, in this article, that’s money that could have been...
Singularity Utopia. “Is Basic Income Impossible? 2013 Costing for UK #Basic Income”
Nov 19, 2013 | Research
[Ian Orton] Invariably, the first reaction to the BI proposal is ‘how would it be financed?’ This article argues that a BI of £13,000 per annum is possible for all UK adults. Various financing scenarios are considered, broadly based on a combined financing method...
Danny Vinik, “Everyone's Talking About This Simple Solution To Ending Poverty By Just Giving People Free Money”
Nov 19, 2013 | Research
Danny Vinik, “Everyone's Talking About This Simple Solution To Ending Poverty By Just Giving People Free Money,” Business Insider-Australia, Nov 13 2013.
Tom Streithorst, “How Basic Income Will Save Capitalism”
Nov 18, 2013 | Research
Tom Streithorst, “How Basic Income Will Save Capitalism,” Pieria, Oct 30th 2013.
Matt Bruenig: More than a half dozen blogs about BIG in 2013
Nov 18, 2013 | Research
Matt Bruenig is a journalist who has written politics, economics, and political theory for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and many other publications. In 2013 he has written ten articles on basic income. Mostly for Demos’s Policy Shop, and also...
Edward Miller, “The Basic Income Is Dead”
Nov 17, 2013 | Research
Edward Miller, “The Basic Income Is Dead,” Embrace Unity, Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies. Mar 27, 2012. https://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/miller20120327
Philippe Van Parijs, “The Universal Basic Income: Why Utopian Thinking Matters, and How Sociologists Can Contribute to It”
Nov 17, 2013 | Research
ABSTRACT: Utopian thinking consists of formulating proposals for radical reforms, justifying them on the basis of normative principles combined with the best possible scientific analysis of the root causes of the problems the proposals are meant to address, and...
We are not the beautiful, “Interview with the group behind the Swiss Basic Income referendum”
Nov 14, 2013 | Research
[Craig Axford] Enno Schmidt, co-founder of Generation Basic Income, joins two members of the organization to share their experiences gathering signatures for Switzerland’s basic income initiative. They also discuss their reasons for supporting this vote and how they...
Annie Lowrey, “Switzerland’s Proposal to Pay People for Being Alive”
Nov 13, 2013 | Research
News of the forthcoming Swiss referendum on the Basic Income proposal continues to make inroads in the popular press; this time across the Atlantic where The New York Times features this important political moment in a positive light. The article runs through the...
Mehdi Hasan. “We could fix our economy by giving every man, woman and child £6,000 in cash”
Nov 12, 2013 | Research
This article, in the New Statesman, criticizes the ineffectiveness of quantitative easing [QE] in the UK and how it has benefited the banking sector and the richest. It suggest the amount spent so far of 375bn could have be ‘given instead as around £6,000 per man,...
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