Many people might know Universal Basic Income (UBI), but fewer are familiar with Universal Basic Services (UBS), providing essential services according to need, not ability to pay. This is a collective alternative to the individualist […]
Interest in a basic income seems to be growing, and there are many examples of exploratory experiments. The question is, is a basic income a route to a more socially just and ecologically sustainable society? […]
Maricá, a Brazilian municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro, decided in 2013 to embrace universal basic income. The Universidade Federal Fluminense, based in Niteroi, Brazil, and the Jain Family Institute, based in New […]
Two major problems with Universal Basic Income Ian Greener is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Cross-posted from the website of the Social Policy Association There is groundswell of support in […]
Guy Standing writes about Basic Income; as the economic crisis will go on for longer and will be worse the longer the pandemic itself lasts. In those circumstances, now is the time to try out […]
The outdated notions of class and the continued romanticizing of “the working class.” Guy Standing is a Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and the co-founder and […]
The European Union (EU) is pretending it will unlock trillions of Euros to address the coronavirus crisis. But if we look closer, we realise this is too little, too late, and will only drive countries […]
Frances’s brilliant book “The Case for People’s Quantitative Easing” examined the strategic use of helicopter money. Today is the wrong time, she concludes. Frances Coppola is the author of the Coppola Comment finance and economics blog, […]
Heiner Flassbeck argues that to counter the economic shock of the crisis in the euro zone we need to break the rulebook set by the European Commission and German orthodoxy Heiner Flassbeck is an economist, […]
An economic plan NOW is every bit as important as an epidemic plan. “Already it is absolutely clear that economic orthodoxy is not even at the races in producing one – because economic orthodoxy is […]
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