30th May 2017

Basic Income: A timely solution to the imminent welfare crisis?

Bella Caledonia has published a short article on Basic Income and Universal Credit: Basic Income: A timely solution to the imminent welfare crisis? The article is followed by some useful references.

30th May 2017

Danny Dorling publishes ‘The Equality Effect’

Danny Dorling has published a new book: The Equality Effect: Improving life for everyone. A basic income would ultimately show how much everyone in a society was valued at the Read More

30th May 2017

Paul Spicker’s suggestion of a convertible tax allowance

Paul Spicker has written an article suggesting a convertible personal tax allowance. To read the article, click here. This is a partly-baked idea, based on reform of the Personal Tax Read More

15th May 2017

Guy Standing’s new book, ‘Basic Income’, launched at the London School of Economics

To see a video of the public lecture at which Guy Standing launched his new book, Basic Income: And how we can make it happen, at the London School of Read More

15th May 2017

Discussion of Citizen’s Basic Income on BBC Radio 4

On Sunday 14th May, The World This Weekend broadcast a discussion about the future of work and a Citizen’s Basic Income. Participants were Anthony Painter (Royal Society of Arts), Jonathan Read More

9th May 2017

Citizen’s Basic Income ‘offers public finance efficiency gains’

Public Finance International has published an article entitled ‘Universal Basic Income offers public finance efficiency gains’. A universal basic income can increase efficiency and accountability in the public finances of Read More

2nd May 2017

Citizen’s Income Trust update, May 2017

To read the May 2017 update, click here.

2nd May 2017

Mårten Blix, Digitalization, Immigration and the Welfare State

Mårten Blix, Digitalization, Immigration and the Welfare State, Edward Elgar, 2017, viii + 186 pp, hbk, 1 78643 294 0, £70 While this book might look like a niche research Read More

2nd May 2017

Ruth Patrick, For Whose Benefit?

Ruth Patrick, For Whose Benefit? The everyday realities of welfare reform, Policy Press, 2017, xiv + 255 pp, pbk 1 4473 3348 7, £24.99 As Ruth Lister’s foreword to this Read More

2nd May 2017

Widerquist and McCall, Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy

Karl Widerquist and Grant S. McCall, Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press, 2017. This book can be downloaded free here. This book, by a philosopher and an Read More