The quarterly Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare published a symposium on the basic income guarantee in its September 2016 issue.
Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare Symposium on the Basic Income Guarantee
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Panel on Basic Income at 13TH BRAGA MEETINGS ON ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
"This panel invites contributors to elaborate discussions concerning the Basic Income theory and its connection with...
A new book on the case for UBI in South Africa and beyond
Readers and BIEN members might be interested in a new book, IN THE BALANCE: The Case for a Universal Basic Income in...
Guaranteed Income Pilot for Released Felons
In January 2022, 57 people began receiving unconditional direct deposit payments and on March 31st, 58 more people...
What kind of Citizen’s Dividend from Goa mining would promote intergenerational justice?
Wealth distribution can liberate from the incentives that poverty produces. You have the chance of posing and giving space to these important questions.
Congress papers
BIEN 2022, Brisbane Maria Ozanira da Silva e SilvaTHE “BOLSA FAMÍLIA” PROGRAM AND THE “AUXÍLIO BRASIL” PROGRAM:...
The Fall and Rise of the Basic Income Movement: My personal reflections after following it for 40 years
Forty years ago today—February 7, 1980—was a small milestone for the Universal Basic Income (UBI) movement: Milton and...
Podcast: Anna Coote and Louise Haagh on The Ralph Miliband Programme
Anna Coote (left), Louise Haagh (right) "Universal Basic Income and Universal Basic Services: the case for radical...
Exporting the Alaska Model: An early version now available for free download
An early version of the book, Exporting the Alaska Model, is available for download for the first time. This is...
Spain: The Barcelona B-MINCOME experiment publishes its first results
The pilot project which is being carried out in Barcelona – B-MINCOME - combining guaranteed minimum income and active...
Plunder of the Commons: a manifesto for sharing public wealth
On wednesday, the 2nd October 2019, from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm, professor Guy Standing will be presenting his new book...
The Growth of the Australian Basic Income Movement (Forward to the book, “Implementing a Basic Income in Australia”)
This is a draft version of my forward to the book, Implementing a Basic Income in Australia: Pathways Forward edited...
Brazil: Small city in Brazil implements a modest, partial basic income
Maricá at a distance. Original article by Eduardo Suplicy Last Saturday, May 25th 2019, an event took place in Maricá,...
UBI Taiwan aims to be ‘tipping point’ for basic income
A nearly-packed auditorium of mostly young Taiwanese arrived on an early Saturday morning to learn about Universal Basic Income and its role in addressing key trends for the next generation.
Basic Income Lab at Stanford University accepting applications for Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Application deadline is March 8, 2019.
UK: Call for Papers announced for Cambridge conference on intellectual history of basic income
A team of three University of Cambridge scholars have released a CFP for a conference on the history of the idea of basic income, to be held on January 14, 2019.
Karl Widerquist’s Speaking Engagements Summer-Fall 2018
This summer and fall I'll give at least ten talks in seven cities in six countries including the United States,...
Germany: Basic Income and the Euro-Dividend as Socio-political Pillars of the EU and its Member Countries (Conference)
"There will always be hope". Picture credit: Alex Gi. On the 11th and 12th of October 2018, the University of...
Audio of my presentation, “Why we need a Universal Basic Income”
This audio is of talk I gave on why we need a Universal Basic Income. I gave the talk for the "Sydney Ideas" series in...
Basic Income’s Third Wave
This essay is reprinted from OpenDemocracy, 18 October 2017 Support for unconditional basic income (UBI) has grown so...