Research posts
Here you will find notices about research and research results relating to Basic Income
MIYAMOTO, Taro (ed.)(2010), Activation or basic income?…
This special issue of the journal Academia Juris Booklet (in Japanese) is edited by Prof. Miyamoto Taro (Faculty of Law, Hokkaido University), one of Japan's leading expert in social security reform. It includes one paper by Yannick Vanderborght (Louvain University...
BIRNBAUM, Simon (2012), Basic income reconsidered…
The idea of guaranteeing every member of society an unconditional basic income is one the most innovative and powerful proposals for countering our growing economic inequalities and to sustainably prevent poverty. But would this be a just thing to do? In the last few...
Publications: Palgrave Macmillan releases first two books in its series, “Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee”
Palgrave Macmillan, part of the Macmillan Group of publishers, is a global academic publisher of textbooks, journals, monographs, professional, and reference works. For several years now, the publisher been putting together a book series on the basic income guarantee....
Publications: Basic Income Studies releases its October 2011 issue
Basic Income Studies is the only academic journal devoted entirely to examining basic income. In October 2011 it released a special issue, edited by Daniel Mosley, entitled, “Should Libertarians Endorse Basic Income?” The debate includes the following articles:...
BIRNBAUM, Simon (2011), 'Should surfers be ostracized?…'
BIRNBAUM, Simon (2011), ‘Should surfers be ostracized? Basic income, liberal neutrality, and the work ethos’… Neutralists have argued that there is something illiberal about linking access to gift-like resources to work requirements. The central liberal motivation for...
BAERT, Anthony (2011), ‘Experiências de transferência de renda universal…'
BAERT, Anthony (2011), ‘Experiências de transferência de renda universal e recomendações para o projeto de Renda Básica de Cidadania em Santo Antônio do Pinhal’... This timely paper is aimed at contributing to the understanding of the concrete implementation of the...
Arguing About Justice. Essays for Philippe Van Parijs (2011)
A collective volume entitled Arguing about justice has just been published on the occasion of Philippe Van Parijs’s 60th birthday. The book was launched on October 28th, 2011, during the celebrations of the Hoover Chair (Louvain University) 20th anniversary, and...
Standing, Guy. 2011. The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
In a new book, Guy Standing develops a theme that has underpinned his advocacy of a basic income since the 1980s. There are many rationales for supporting a basic income, but effective political pressure may emanate from the emergence of a new mass class, the precariat. It is a dangerous class; not yet a class-for-itself, in the Marxian sense, but a class-in-the-making, in which distinctive groups are torn politically in different directions.
Moseley, Daniel (June 25, 2011), A Lockean Argument for Basic Income
There are strong Lockean considerations that count in favor of a global basic income program. This paper articulates a conception of equal share left-libertarianism that is supported by the rights of full self-ownership and world-ownership. It is argued that an appropriately constructed basic income program would be a key institution for promoting the rights of full self-ownership and world-ownership.
HOWARD, Michael, June 21, 2011: “Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend: A policy ripe for export”
Michael Howard is a professor of philosophy at the University of Maine and co-editor with Karl Widerquist of the forthcoming book “Exporting the Alaska Model: How the Permanent Fund Dividend Can be Adapted as a Reform Model for the World” (Palgrave MacMillan).
Basic Income Network Italy: BIN Report No. 12
BIN Italy published the BIN Report No. 12 March-June 2011, the online journal of the Basic Income Network Italy. It is published in Italian on a regular base each two month and contains information about national and international news on Basic Income. You can...
STANDING, Guy: Eine Stimme für das Prekariat?
Standing, Guy (2011): Eine Stimme für das Prekariat?, Der Freitag (online), June 7, 2011 In this article Guy Standing gives the opinion, that progressive powers have to address the new class before it is done by the extreme right. The great left parties in Britain and...
