Basic Income News

Guy Standing on RT the BIG Picture Thom Hartman, of the U.S.-based news website, RT The Big Picture, recently interviewed Guy Standing on basic income, the Alaska Dividend, the Indian basic income pilot project, and related issues. The interview is now on YouTube. Hartmann, Thom. “The right to basic income: Interview with Guy Standing,” RT [...]

This op-ed piece argues that the political climate in Scotland has recently opened up to big ideas such as basic income. McAlpine, Robin “A new enlightened political debate?” The Scotsman, 05.03.2013 http://www.scotsman.com/news/robin-mcalpine-a-new-enlightened-political-debate-1-2821758

This book, released in 2011, is now available for free as a computer-generated audio book in MP3 format. (It is also available for download as PDF, see story from BI News, May 19, 2013). The hard copy is still available for €29.90. Philippe Van Parijs is one of the leading philosophers writing about basic income [...]

A very early article from the Social Credit movement is now online. Social Credit is a monetary reform movement that includes a basic income guarantee under the name of a “national dividend.” Gordon-Cumming, M. 1935. “Money in Industry.” London: the C. W. Daniel Company This article is online at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/114593844/Money-in-Industry

This classic article of the Social Credit movement is now online. Social Credit is a monetary reform movement that includes a basic income guarantee under the name of a “national dividend.” Monahan, Bryan W. 1967. “Introduction To Social Credit: Second Revised And Enlarged Edition,” London: K.R.P. Publications Ltd. This article is online at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/112942854/Introduction-to-Social-Credit-by-Dr-Bryan-W-Monahan

This op-ed piece calls for basic income as a new approach to poverty and an alternative to austerity. It is written by Senator Hugh Segal of the Conservative Party (Canada). Segal, Hugh, “Why Guaranteeing the Poor an Income Will Save Us All In the End,” The Blog, Business Canada, The Huffington Post, April 8, 2013 [...]

OurKingdom: Power & Liberty in Britain, “Democratic Wealth,” 15 May 2013 This piece discusses BIG from a republican prespective—that is from the two-millennia old political movement with roots in the writings of Cicero, Livy, Machiavelli, and Rousseau and with little or nothing to do with the so-called “Republican” party in the United States. According to [...]

Konczal, Mike “Thinking Utopian: How about a universal basic income?” The Washington Post, Wonkblog page, May 11, 2013 This op-ed piece in the Washington Post has inspired a buzz in the blogosphere. The author goes over some of the common arguments for and against basic income, showing how it has aspects that attract to (and [...]

[Aynur Bashirova – Bi News – May 2013] Westrick, Brian. (2013). “Basic Income Guarantee Solution for Social Welfare.” The North Wind, Thursday, Apr 11 2013 Brian Westrick, in his article published in the North Wind, argues that the social safety nets in the US are inefficient and can be replaced by a more efficient system [...]

The Twelfth Annual North American Basic Income Guarantee (NABIG) Congress begins today, Thursday, May 9, 2013 at the Sheraton New York Hotel. The NABIG Conference is a joint conference of the USBIG Network (www.usbig.net) and BIEN-Canada. It is being held as a sub-section of the annual meeting of the Eastern Economic Association (EEA). The conference [...]