20th July 2018

Conference announcement, An Intellectual History of Basic Income

Cambridge, 14th January 2019 The conference organisers say this about the event: The last ten years have witnessed a major revival of interest in the Universal Basic Income proposal. After Read More

14th June 2018

Illustrative draft legislation for a Citizen’s Basic Income

The Citizen’s Basic Income Trust occasionally sets up working groups to tackle particular pieces of work. A recent working group – containing a solicitor, a tax accountant, a student of Read More

4th June 2018

£10,000 for 25-year-olds

On the 2nd April 2018, the Institute for Public Policy Research published a report, Our Common Wealth, which recommends that a Citizens’ Wealth Fund should be established, which by 2030 Read More

16th May 2018

Why we need a Citizen’s Basic Income

Why we need a Citizen’s Basic Income (Policy Press, 2018), by Malcolm Torry, is a completely revised and updated new edition of his Money for Everyone (Policy Press, 2013): and Read More

26th April 2018

Basic Income and the Euro-Dividend, conference in Freiburg

On October 11th and 12th 2018 the University of Freiburg in Germany will hold an interdisciplinary conference titled “Basic Income and the Euro-Dividend as Sociopolitical Pillars of the EU and Read More

25th April 2018

Citizen’s Basic Income: A booklet and a poster

Citizen’s Basic Income: A brief introduction Contents What is a Citizen’s Basic Income? How would it work? Six fundamental changes Four frequently asked questions Constructing a feasible Citizen’s Basic Income scheme Read More

4th April 2018

Who should receive a Citizen’s Basic Income?

To suggest that a Citizen’s Basic Income should be paid to ‘citizens’ is to begin a discussion, not to complete it. A discussion of citizenship will not on its own Read More

4th April 2018

Participative exercises at the Citizen’s Basic Income Day at the LSE

During the Citizen’s Basic Income Day at the London School of Economics on Tuesday 20th February 2018, participants took part in a number of exercises. Here we describe the exercises Read More

3rd April 2018

New Geoff Crocker video on Citizen’s Basic Income funded by perpetual deficit

To see a new Geoff Crocker presentation on Basic Income funded by perpetual deficit: A radical heterodox proposal, click here.              

2nd April 2018

New IPPR report proposes a universal capital dividend

The Institute for Public Policy Research has published Our Common Wealth: A Citizens’ Wealth Fund for the UK: A declining labour share of national income, together with unequal capital ownership, Read More