20th December 2017

Pereira, Financing Basic Income

Richard Pereira (ed.), Financing Basic Income: Addressing the cost objection, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, xiii + 116 pp, hbk, 3 319 54267 6, £37.99 In his introductory chapter Richard Pereira sets Read More

20th December 2017

Phil Mullan, Creative Destruction

Phil Mullan, Creative Destruction: How to start an economic renaissance, Policy Press, 2017, ix + 348 pp, 1 4473 3611 2, pbk, £12.99 The agenda which this book tackles is Read More

20th December 2017

Danny Dorling, The Equality Effect

Danny Dorling, The Equality Effect: Improving life for everyone, New Internationalist, 2017, 280 pp, 1 78026 390 8, pbk, £9.99 Danny Dorling’s new book is in many ways similar to Read More

20th December 2017

Mark Walker, Free Money for All

Mark Walker, Free Money for All: A Basic Income Guarantee solution for the twenty-first century, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, xi + 249 pp, 1 137 47132 1, hbk, £75 This book Read More

20th December 2017

Roger A. McCain, Approaching Equality

Roger A. McCain, Approaching Equality: What can be done about wealth inequality, Edward Elgar, 2017, v + 224 pp, 1 78643 143, hbk, £75 This book tackles some important and Read More

20th December 2017

Jeffery Smith, Perfect Timing

Jeffery J. Smith, Perfect Timing, Rogue Phoenix Press, 2017, no page numbers, 1-62420-321-3, £3.97, http://www.roguephoenixpress.com/ We don’t normally review fiction in the Citizen’s Income Newsletter, but we have been sent Read More

14th December 2017

The Institute for Chartered Accountants returns to a discussion of Citizen’s Basic Income

The Institute for Chartered Accountants of England and Wales has published an article entitled Is business doing enough to reduce inequality? … With the increase in technology and AI, social Read More

13th December 2017

Uber, watermen, employment market change, and Citizen’s Basic Income

A BBC Radio 4 The Long View programme discusses changes in the employment market and the role that a Citizen’s Basic Income might play in providing income security during the Read More

13th December 2017

Reducing poverty and inequality through tax-benefit reform

A slightly revised version of an Institute for Social and Economic Research working paper on tax and benefit reform options in the UK has now been published in the Journal of Economic Read More

13th December 2017

Ian Gough, Heat, Greed and Human Need

Ian Gough, Heat, Greed and Human Need: Climate change, capitalism and sustainable wellbeing, Edward Elgar, 2017, ix + 250 pp, 1 78536 512 6, hbk, £25 This book has a Read More