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CANADA: Green Party Leader Endorses Basic Income
Elizabeth May, the leader of the Green Party in Canada and an MP in British Columbia recently endorsed basic income. The endorsement of a “Guaranteed Livable Income” came through a press release on October 17, the United Nations (UN) International Day for the...
Stephen Fortunato, “The Imperative of an International Guaranteed Income.”
Stephen Fortunato, “The Imperative of an International Guaranteed Income.” The Monthly Review Volume 58, Issue 11 (April 2007) Published back in April of 2007, this article begins with “super-capitalist” Warren Buffett’s “trenchant understatement: ‘A market system has...
Stephen Fortunato, “The Fraud of Jobs”
[USBIG - April 2013] Stephen Fortunato, “The Fraud of Jobs,” Buddhist Peace Fellowship. February 25, 2013 This article exposes what the author sees as the widely held misconception that the creation of jobs is the motivating objective behind most U.S. economic policy....
Monbiot, George. “Communism, welfare state – what's the next big idea?”
Monbiot, George. “Communism, welfare state – what's the next big idea?” The Guardian, Monday 1 April 2013 [BIEN – April 2013] This opinion piece in one of Britain’s leading newspapers, begins, “Most of the world's people are decent, honest and kind. Most of those who...
L'Hirondelle, C.A., “The High Costs of a Leaky Roof Society”
[Sabrina Del Pico - BIN Italia - March 2013] This article argues that a universal livable income represents a wise investment for the future rather than an unsustainable cost. Using a metaphor about roof construction, the author compares and contrasts the long-term...
Citizen’s Income Trust, “Editorial,” Citizen’s Income Newsletter, Issue 1 2013
This article argues that the United Kingdom’s proposed “Universal Credit” fails largely because it fails to be universal enough. If it was structured more like the UK’s child benefit system, it could be more effective and more of a step toward a Citizen’s (or Basic)...
Pavia, Italy, 14th December 2012: Public Meeting on Labour and Guaranteed Income
[BIN-Italia – December 2012] A public meeting entitled “Labour and Basic Income: Guaranteed Minimum Income and Citizenship's Income” was held in the city of Pavia on the 14th of December at Sala Ciro Barbieri at the Province of Pavia. Andrea Di Stefano and Professor...
Basic income studies: news on how to access the full text articles
Some news on how to access full text versions of articles published by Basic Income Studies (BIS) on the website of its new publisher, DeGruyter: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/bis Individual users with already existing accounts at the DeGruyter site can use the...
Flassbeck, Heiner, Friederike Spiecker, Volker Meinhardt and Dieter Vesper, Frankfurt, Westend Irrweg Grundeinkommen: Die große Umverteilung von unten nach oben muss beendet werden [The Basic Income Aberration: The Great Redistribution from Bottom to Top Must be Ended]
This book argues against the change of income distribution in the last decades (the great redistribution from bottom to top・, but it also reject the basic income as a solution. Flassbeck, Heiner, Friederike Spiecker, Volker Meinhardt and Dieter Vesper (2012),...
Manning, Lowell, “How to introduce a guaranteed minimum income in New Zealand”
Summary, this paper offers a practical plan to resolve the world’s problem of exponential debt growth and to control inflation. The plans are based on a revision of the well-known Fisher Equation of exchange enabling it to take account of interest-bearing debt. They...
Manning, Lowell “The Manning plan for permanent debt reduction in the national economy”
Summary, “A low risk politically acceptable and practical way to resolve the world debt crisis without sudden or radical change to the world’s financial system is presented. It is worked out for conditions in New Zealand. Applicable to any economy, it includes the...
Two publications suggest putting basic income on the agenda for the second Obama administration
Mike Konczal, of the Roosevelt Institute, begins as article in The American Prospect, writing, “Now that Obamacare—the largest expansion of the social-safety net in the last 60 years—is safe, what's next for the liberal economic project?” He suggest basic income as...
