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Guy Standing – How the precariat – and UBI – can stop neoliberalism from destroying the planet

November 2, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Taxes on exploiting the commons – both exhaustible and non-exhaustible resources – could be used to give people basic financial security. Dr Guy Standing is Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London, Fellow of the […]

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Economics

Guy Standing – Basic income: a progressive road out of austerity

September 18, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

“A new distribution system is needed. Real wages will not rise by much, full-time well-paying jobs will not become the norm, the precariat will continue to grow. Progressives should stop pretending marginal adjustments would rectify […]

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Serban V.C. Enache – Debunking UBI funding schemes

July 6, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

BRAVE NEW EUROPE has posted a number of articles concerning universal basic income – both for and against. In this piece Serban V.C. Enache confronts the supporters of universal basic income with a number of […]

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It’s Basic Income: The Global Debate edited by Amy Downes and Stewart Lansley

May 24, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Mathew D. Rose Universal Basic Income, or UBI as it is abbreviated, is without a doubt a popular topic. The problem is that behind the emotional hype there is a lot of […]

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Resolution Foundation – 10 policies if you think you might want a Universal Basic Income but aren’t sure

April 30, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Universal Basic Income is a topic where the jury is still out. Adam Corlett raises a number of important questions. By Adam Corlett, Senior Economic Analyst at the Resolution Foundation Cross-posted from the Resolution Foundation […]

Economics

The Minskys: For Bold Solutions We Ought To Include MMT in Economic Discourse

April 29, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The need to revamp Western capitalism has brought renewed attention to Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), a school of thought that offers an important and bold perspective on economics and policy solutions. Read here  

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New Economics Foundation – Universal Basic Income or Universal Basic Services?

April 4, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Some people think universal basic income is a utopian impossibility. Others think it’s dangerous. So there’s a proposal for another solution: universal basic services. Instead of giving people money, why not guarantee all of the […]

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Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World by William Mitchell and Thomas Fazi

March 15, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Mathew D. Rose According to Bill Mitchell the book’s original title was “Reclaiming the Nation State”. The progressive publisher wanted the word nation removed. The term “Nation State”, claimed the publisher, was […]

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Finance

Karl Brenke – Germany: Unconditional Basic Income: unnecessary, barely affordable, and politically dangerous

March 8, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

We have posted a number of articles concerning Universal Basic Income – pro and contra. In this posting Karl Brenke, using Germany as an example, comes to the conclusion that UBI is not economically feasible […]

Finance

Renegade Inc: A Universal Basic Income is capitulation to capitalism

February 28, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

While sovereign governments (those that issue their own currency) can certainly afford a UBI, simply throwing money at a problem, instead of addressing its root cause presents serious concerns. Read here  

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

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Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

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