16th May 2018

Basic Income And The Left: A European Debate

edited by Philippe Van Parijs and published by Social Europe The Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) is one of the most hotly debated ideas of recent years on the left – Read More

16th May 2018

Why we need a Citizen’s Basic Income

Why we need a Citizen’s Basic Income (Policy Press, 2018), by Malcolm Torry, is a completely revised and updated new edition of his Money for Everyone (Policy Press, 2013): and Read More

15th May 2018

Research post at the Institute for Policy Research

Research Associate – Fixed Term Institute for Policy Research Salary: Starting from £32,548, rising to £38,833 Postdoctoral Research Associate – The Economics of Universal Basic Income This is an exciting Read More

12th May 2018

Lansley, McCann and Schifferes, Remodelling Capitalism

Stewart Lansley, Duncan McCann and Steve Schifferes, Remodelling Capitalism: How social wealth funds could transform Britain, Friends Provident, 2018, 56 pp, free to download from here The first lines of Read More

9th May 2018

May 2018 monthly update

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4th May 2018

Radio 4 ‘Thinking Allowed’ programme about Citizen’s Basic Income

To listen to a Radio 4 Thinking Allowed programme broadcast on the 30th April 2018 click here. Universal Basic Income: Laurie Taylor asks if it’s the answer to an increasingly precarious job Read More

26th April 2018

Basic Income and the Euro-Dividend, conference in Freiburg

On October 11th and 12th 2018 the University of Freiburg in Germany will hold an interdisciplinary conference titled “Basic Income and the Euro-Dividend as Sociopolitical Pillars of the EU and Read More

25th April 2018

Recent news on the Finland experiment

Kela, the Finnish social security agency, has published information that corrects erroneous news reports that the Finnish Basic Income experiment will be finishing early. This is not the case. There Read More

25th April 2018

Chris Goulden’s recent JRF blog post about Citizen’s Basic Income

Chris Goulden, who works for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, has written a new blog post about Citizen’s Basic Income: If pressed, I’d say UBI opens up a helpful debate about Read More

25th April 2018

Citizen’s Basic Income: A booklet and a poster

Citizen’s Basic Income: A brief introduction Contents What is a Citizen’s Basic Income? How would it work? Six fundamental changes Four frequently asked questions Constructing a feasible Citizen’s Basic Income scheme Read More