16th September 2019

A new report from the Institute for Policy Research

The Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath has published a new report,  Basic Income, Automation, and Labour Market Change, by Luke Martinelli The research questions tackled by Read More

16th September 2019

Cholbi and Weber (eds), The Future of Work, Technology, and Basic Income

Michael Cholbi and Michael Weber (eds), The Future of Work, Technology, and Basic Income, Routledge, 2020, vi + 193 pp, hbk, 1 138 31606 5, £115 To get an important Read More

16th September 2019

Midgley, Surender and Alfers (eds), Handbook of Social Policy and Development

James Midgley, Rebecca Surender and Laura Alfers (eds), Handbook of Social Policy and Development, Edward Elgar, 2019, xiii + 486 pp, hbk, 1 78536 842 4, £155 The eBook version Read More

16th September 2019

Lynne Pettinger, What’s Wrong with Work?

Lynne Pettinger, What’s Wrong with Work? Policy Press, 2019, x + 230 pp, 1 4473 4008 9, pbk, £12.99 Work is ‘what gets done to make life possible’ (p. 5), Read More

11th September 2019

Liverpool looks forward to a Citizen’s Basic Income pilot project

The Liverpool Echo reports on the Liverpool mayor’s interest in running a pilot project: Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson has given a pledge on Universal Basic Income as work to bring in Read More

11th September 2019

Mary Mellor, Money

Mary Mellor, Money: Myths, truth and alternatives, Policy Press, 2019, ix + 177 pp, 1 4473 4627 2, pbk, £14.99 Money is a social institution: that is, it is a Read More

11th September 2019

Westerveld and Olivier, Social Security Outside the Realm of the Employment Contract

Mies Westerveld and Marius Olivier (eds), Social Security Outside the Realm of the Employment Contract: Informal Work and Employee-like Workers, Edward Elgar, 2019, x + 230 pp, 1 78811 339 Read More

11th September 2019

Timothée Duverger, L’Invention du Revenu de Ba$€

Timothée Duverger, L’Invention du Revenu de Ba$€: La fabrique d’une utopie démocratique, Le Bord de L’eau, 2018, 144 pp, 2 35678 614 0, hbk, 14€ We normally only review books Read More

11th September 2019

The 2019 BIEN Congress held in Hyderabad, India

The congress took place at the NALSAR University of Law in Hyderabad, and was organized by the Indian Basic Income Network (INBI). The first day was an India Day. Sarath Read More

11th September 2019

Inequality and Brexit

The Citizen’s Basic Income Trust is an educational charitable trust, so we cannot involve ourselves in the complex political debate about Brexit, and nor would we wish to do so. Read More