2nd May 2017

New Royal Society of Arts podcast, and a report from the Work and Pensions Committee

To hear a discussion between Anthony Painter, John Thornhill, Jon Cruddas MP, and Dr Louise Haagh, click here. The report from the Parliamentary Work and Pensions Committee enquiry mentioned during the Read More

16th April 2017

Guy Standing’s new book

On the 4th May Penguin Books will be publishing Guy Standing’s new book, Basic Income, and how we can make it happen. To see details of the book, click here. Read More

11th April 2017

April 2017 update

To see the April 2017 update, click here.    

11th April 2017

A neoliberal Citizen’s Income?

An article by John Clarke, ‘Progressive Dreams Meet Neoliberal Realities’, poses an important question: Is it true that ‘we can draw a line between the models that are concerned with Read More

11th April 2017

Framing Citizen’s Income

How much does it matter whether the general public thinks Citizen’s Income to be a good idea? There are two views on this. One is that if most members of Read More

11th April 2017

Rebalancing the mix

Most developed countries’ benefits systems exhibit a mixture of different kinds of benefits, and this is increasingly true of developing countries. Most run social insurance schemes of some kind (either Read More

10th April 2017

A new article about Citizen’s Income in ‘Social Europe’

To see the most recent article about Citizen’s Income in Social Europe, click here.

9th April 2017

Paul Spicker, What’s Wrong with Social Security Benefits?

Paul Spicker, What’s Wrong with Social Security Benefits? Policy Press, 2017, vi + 117 pp, 1 4473 3732 4, pbk, £9.99 This is yet another useful book from Paul Spicker Read More

7th April 2017

Van Parijs and Vanderborght, Basic Income

Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght, Basic Income: A radical proposal for a free society and a sane economy, Harvard University Press, 2017, 384 pp, 0 6740 5228 4, hbk, Read More

6th April 2017

Simon Poulter et al, Life Chances: A work of sociological fiction

Simon Poulter, Sophie Mellor, etc., Life Chances: A work of sociological fiction, Life Chances, 2016, ix + 214 pp, pbk, 1 5272 0374 7, £10 Is this a novel? Yes, Read More