Basic Income News

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 book, released in 2011, is now available for free download as PDF. The hard copy is still available for €29.90. Philippe Van Parijs is one of the leading philosophers writing about basic income today. Many of the chapters in this book respond to his ideas about basic income. According to the publisher, “This book [...]

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 [...]

Lewis, Jack, “South Africa Should Learn From Brazil’s Bolsa Familia,” AllAfrica.com, 3 April 2013 This article argues that Brazil’s experience with the Bolsa Familia gives evidence that Namibia should adopt something similar or even a full basic income grant. Online at: http://allafrica.com/stories/201304040319.html

Beernaert, Lauranne, “Basic Income – A Solution for Austerity?” Utblick, March 30, 2013 This article begins, “While austerity plans become more and more popular in Europe and poverty is on the rise on the continent, a citizens’ initiative in favor of a basic income is also flourishing. Indeed, tired of a welfare system, which does [...]

Ailsa McKay, “Citizens’ financial rights,” the Scotsman, February, 2013 This editorial argues that a Citizens Income (basic income) would be an affordable and effective way for Scotland to reform its welfare system. Ailsa McKay is Professor of Economics at the Glasgow School for Business and Society in Glasgow Caledonian University. It’s online at: http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/opinion/comment/ailsa-mckay-citizens-financial-rights-1-2799922#.USSiaQ85niY.twitter