26th February 2018

Debating Citizen’s Basic Income at the LSE

An event at the LSE on Tuesday 20th February was a microcosm of the now extensive debate on Citizen’s Basic Income. Morning and afternoon sessions, which were held at The Read More

26th February 2018

Beveridge rebooted at the London School of Economics

On Tuesday 20th February 2018 the LSE hosted a Citizen’s Basic Income day. About 150 people attended the morning and afternoon sessions, and 400 the evening debate. In the morning there Read More

18th February 2018

The Royal Society of Arts’ new report suggesting a Universal Basic Opportunity Fund

Anthony Painter, Jake Thorold and Charlie Young have written a report entitled Pathways to Universal Basic Income: The case for a Universal Basic Opportunity Fund. The authors write this: In Read More

12th February 2018

An animation, and an LSE blog post

Kurzgesagt has published an animation about Citizen’s Basic Income. Click here to see it. And the LSE Review of Books has published an article in preparation for the LSE Festival Read More

6th February 2018

Universal Credit, means-testing, and social security: an article by Jane Millar

… Child Benefit is an exceptionally well-directed way of helping families and all the old arguments — contribution of society to the future, supports children regardless of parental employment status, provides Read More

29th January 2018

World Economic Forum discussion about Citizen’s Basic Income

To watch a one hour discussion about Citizen’s Basic Income at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, click here        

13th January 2018

The Guardian publishes a critique of the Finnish experiment

An article in The Guardian studies how the Finnish experiment is working out: … The Finnish experiment’s design and objectives mean it should perhaps not really be seen as a Read More

11th January 2018

A Guardian podcast of a debate on Citizen’s Basic Income

The Guardian has published a podcast of a debate on Citizen’s Basic Income (start to listen at 16:00 minutes): Could a universal basic income be a solution to precarious work, Read More

20th December 2017

The ideal meets the practical

Towards an unconditional Citizen’s Basic Income At a time when the idea of Citizen’s Basic Income is gaining traction, discussion and debate continues to break down when the idea meets Read More

5th December 2017

The Inevitability of Deficit

It’s a fact that in modern economies, government financial deficit is the norm. The only exceptions to this are the oil states, and small specific economies running vast export surpluses. Read More