Category: Basic Income

Evidence for Basic Income: www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/wiki/index#wiki_that.27s_all_very_well.2C_but_where.27s_the_evidence.3F Automation in depth: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU Regarding… Universal basic income in the OECD Universal Basic Income is set to be trialled as a pilot scheme by Fife Council in an as yet undisclosed location within the Kingdom. Details of the pilot scheme are very limited and it is likely to take several months just to agree the prerequisites for selecting the pilot area and collecting the datasets by which the outcomes of […] Libertarian Perspectives Dolan S Econ Conservative Progressive Econ Blog Economic Commentary Universal Basic Basic Income Afford Social Justice EconoMonitor : Ed Dolan’s Econ […]

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By Anne van Dalen, first woman to receive a BI in the Netherlands @vanDalenAnne How did my BI come about

It all started in 2014 after donating €5 to a crowdfunding initiative called OnsBasisinkomen.nl (transl. our basic income) which aims to raise funds to provide someone a basic income in order to gain insight in what it means to actually live on a BI. It turned out to be feasable and the first ever experimental guinea pig, Frans Kerver, kicked off in July 2015. The moment the call for a second BI sounded I again donated €5 and in […]

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Should labour support the demand for a Basic Income? In response to the threat of automation, the rise of neoliberal policies and the weakening of trade unions parts of the Left have come to champion BI as a policy that can save the working class. But is this the best way to fight these threats? Looking at the labour movements’ own history shows that not only are these issues not new, the solution of Basic Income is hardly the best response.

In 1953, facing rising unemployment as the Korean War slowed to a halt, a debate emerged in the United […]

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Let’s say the cost to produce a widget is $1. What’s the cost to produce 1 million widgets?

This may sound like an extremely simple word problem that even some preschoolers could solve. However, if you think the answer is $1 million, you would be entirely wrong.

The cost to produce 1 million widgets is far below $1 million thanks to the savings inherent in mass production. It’s a lot cheaper per something to make a lot of something, than it is to create one of it, or even a few. A couple secondary understandings extend themselves as a result of […]

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The various basic income experiments going on around the world are now coming under criticism from public sector union officials: As basic income experiments proliferate around the world — including in Prince Edward Island , the Netherlands , Finland and Kenya — some labour unions are starting to voice opposition to a plan they fear could make many public service jobs redundant. Finland’s largest labour union, SAK, recently called the country’s basic income experiment “useless” and made what would ordinarily be a conservative argument against it — that it would encourage people to drop out of the workforce, harming […]

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Neil Howard (Antwerp): Basic Income and the Anti-Slavery Movement . Asbjorn Melkevik (Harvard): No Malibu Surfer Left Behind : Three Tales About Market Coercion (“This article examines the question of private coercion in market societies, arguing for an unconditional basic income guarantee from a classical liberal viewpoint”). Akash Kapur reviews Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There by Rutger Bregman (and more and more and more ) and Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy by Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght. This Kenyan village is a laboratory for the biggest […]

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