Finance
Basic Income Earth Network: Finland shares unconditional money, but the public view remains polarised
A good update on the Universal Basic Income experiment in Finland. Read here
Universal Basic Income
Finance
Anna Coote – Basic income: Robbing Peter to pay Paul
No wonder universal basic income has so many neoliberal champions. It saps employee power and could actually help dismantle the welfare state, explains Anna Coote. Anna Coote is a Principal Fellow at New Economics Foundation […]
Economics
Renegade Inc: Universal Basic Income – Utopian or Real?
Every once in a while, an idea surfaces that catches the imagination of the public: academics, policy wonks, economists, entrepreneurs and even some governments. Universal Basic Income (UBI) is one of those ideas. Read here […]
EU politics
Anna Coote – Are Universal Public Services the answer to Europe’s widening inequalities?
Economic inequalities are intolerably high across Europe. How to narrow the gap? A new study suggests that it is time to think afresh about the redistributive effects of public services. Anna Coote is Principal Fellow at […]
Finance
Stewart Lansley and Howard Reed – Making universal basic income work: the incremental approach
Universal Basic Income is an idea which has seen a phenomenal increase in interest throughout much of Europe. In the recent French national elections a number of candidates supported it in various forms. Britian’s Labour […]
Finance
Aditya Chakrabortty: A basic income for everyone? Yes, Finland shows it really can work
Universal Basic Income is, like Helicopter Money or a Green New Deal, held in contempt by the establishment: not practical, not possible, something for the loony left. In reality it is an idea being increasingly […]
Finance
A Sharing Economy: How Social Wealth Funds can Reduce Inequality and Help Balance the Books
Book review by Erica Frazier Cross-posted from the LSE Review of Books blog CEOs in the United Kingdom earn more than 180 times the wages of an average employee. In the six years following the […]
Austerity
The Corruption of Capitalism – Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay by Guy Standing
Book review by Mathew D. Rose In 2011 Guy Standing wrote a book titled “The Precariat – The New Dangerous Class”, which showed great prescience. By the second paragraph he had already predicted what would […]
Environment
Stewart Lansley – Citizens’ wealth funds
Since 2008, the question of inequality has moved up the political agenda. This rising concern has yet to translate into policy action. The UK continues to sit towards the top of the global inequality league, […]