THE BASICS OF UBI
UBI Book Review: Citizen’s Basic Income: A Multidisciplinary Approach by Malcolm Torry
This book explores what a range of different academic disciplines have to say about universal basic income.
The circle of obligation and the mandatory-participation “social contract” (Mandatory Participation on Trial, Part 12)
Many people have imagined a workers’ revolution that cuts out property owners and establishes a true circle-of-obligation. As always, let me see the plan. Maybe it solves some of the problems I’ve mentioned, but no plan solves the insider-outsider problems inherent in politics. Wishful thinking about everyone becoming better people after the revolution won’t make the self-serving bias of people in power go away.
Universal basic dividend as a form of welfare
Universal basic dividend (UBD) is a mechanism by which each member of a given society receives a regular payment, with no or very limited conditionality, typically based on recognising the value of common resources, or of public investment in the capitalist economy. This post explores the potential benefits and limitations of this idea, summarising the policy brief recently published by the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.
Opinion: Why Milton Friedman’s free market needs basic income
By: Joshua Preiss See original post here. Universal basic income is an idea usually associated with the political left.
No Simple Policy – Designing a European Basic Income
See original post here. The idea of a European universal basic income bears potential as a palpable way of
Opinion: Basic income wouldn’t lead to adults leaving their jobs and could lift millions of children into brighter futures
By: Michael W. Howard When the child tax credit, first established in 1997, was expanded for a year in
UBI – A highly relevant macroeconomic policy tool that most policymakers misunderstand
By: Swapnil Pawar Universal basic income has been discussed at length in recent debates in economics. The mistaken and
How universal basic income entered the political mainstream
By: Colin Drury It’s near the end of the month, and all 2.1 million adults living here have just
How a guaranteed $600 per month is changing the lives of the formerly incarcerated
By: Sarah Krueger Tydricka Lewis is appreciative of the $600 she’s given each month as part of Durham’s guaranteed
Universal basic income and macro models: What can we learn?
By: Geoff Crocker The macroeconomics of universal basic income (UBI) is insufficiently addressed, both in proposing and in evaluating
In this age of chronic uncertainty, we need a basic income
By: Guy Standing We in the UK are living in an age of chronic uncertainty, in which crises pile
A Basic Income Grant in South Africa: What It’s All About
By: Carilee Osborne See original article here. South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world,
A universal basic income campaign is part of a broader, long-term project of change
By: Hein Marais See original article here. For a very large proportion of South Africans, paid work is neither a
Why Universal Basic Income Would Help Women Entrepreneurs Soar To New Heights
See original post here. Have you ever been told “hard work will get you where you want to be”?
Treading water: Canadians need Universal Basic Income
By: Bhavana Kaushik. See original post here. In a world with skyrocketing housing prices, wages that don’t reflect productivity, and rampant worker
A Decent Level for All: Economic Justice and Universal Basic Income
By: Tanner Matthews. See original post here. Demands for “economic justice” in public policy debates are emotionally powerful, imparting
Opinion: To sustain our current economic model we need to start paying citizens
By: Rhiannon Picton-James. See original post here. A universal basic income, regardless of salary, savings and no strings attached. No
Is Universal Basic Income Part of a Just Transition?
By: JOHN FEFFER See original post here. In the remote rural village of Dauphin, in the Canadian province of
4 Ways Universal Basic Income Could Change Canadian Health Care, According to Health Economists
By: Rebecca Gao See original post here. When the federal government launched the Canada emergency response benefit (CERB) in
The UN has asked Sri Lanka to introduce a temporary basic income
By: Benjamin Parkin Original post can be found here. The UN has asked Sri Lanka to introduce a temporary
What would a basic income mean for the Arab world?
By: Diana Bashur See original post here. _______________________________________ In a nutshell. What a regular, individual and predictable basic income
Long-lost leaflet reveals radical 1986 plan for a basic income for all in the UK
Named after a quote from Karl Marx, a leaflet picked up in a second-hand bookshop uncovers an ambitious proposal
The pandemic exposed a clear feminist argument in favor of universal basic income
Two years on from the first national coronavirus lockdown, Hannah Fearn examines the impact the pandemic had on mothers and argues
A gradual path to a fully universal unconditional basic income is possible in Brazil
By: DAVID CASASSAS, JULIE WARK, AND JEAN WYLLYS … Original Post: https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/25/brazil-amazon-world-about-a-universal-basic-income/ “If the misery of the poor be caused
Opinion: Yes, we can afford Universal Basic Income in South Africa
By Aliya Chikte and Gilad Isaacs Political will and strategic taxation channels could help bridge the yawning divide between
Guaranteed Minimum Income and How It relates to UBI
As the idea of different versions of UBI continues to gather support among the public, attention is turning to
Adopting basic income scheme in Wales could improve health for all
A new report published today (22.06.21) by Public Health Wales suggests that introducing a basic income scheme in Wales could be a catalyst for
Basic Income Will Increase Workers’ Bargaining Power
The economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have brought calls for a universal basic income. While it’s no silver
Seeing The Future In Our Past: Universal Basic Income And The Social Security Act
Universal programs in moments of economic transformation prove to endure with popular support. Will it last? By: Shaby Missaghi
Why Students Should Support Universal Basic Income
We should not underestimate the financial hardship young people and students face due to high levels of debt, rising
Support is growing for a universal basic income – and rightly so
The benefits of universal basic income is being recognized globally with the potential to provide everyone with a safety
Making the Case for Universal Basic Income
Jamie Swift and Elaine Power’s book offers a compelling argument that it’s time to give Canadians more freedom and