Resources

 

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Books

 

• Guy Standing (May 2017), Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen.   

• Philippe van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght (April 2017), Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy.   

• Rutger Bregman (2017 English Ed. - 2014 Dutch Ed.), Utopia For Realists And How We Can Get There.   

•  NZ  J Mays, G Marston, and J Tomlinson, eds. (2016), Basic Income in Australia and New Zealand: Perspectives from the Neoliberal Frontier. Includes essays written by Keith Rankin and Susan St John.   

• Guy Standing, Sarath Davala, Renana Jhabvala, & Soumya Kapoor Mehta (2015), Basic Income: A Transformative Policy for India. 

• Malcolm Torry (2015), 101 Reasons For A Citizen's Income - Arguments for giving everyone some money.

• James Ferguson (2015), Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution.   

• Guy Standing (2014), A Precariat Charter.   

• ​Karl Wilderquist et. al Eds. (2013), Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research.   

• Matthew C. Murray & Carole Pateman Eds. (2012), Basic Income Worldwide: Horizons of Reform.   

• Loek Groot (2012), Basic Income, Unemployment and Compensatory Justice.   

• Guy Standing (2011), The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class.  

•  NZ  Gareth Morgan & Susan Guthrie (2011), The Big Kahuna: Turning Tax & Welfare In New Zealand On Its Head.   

• Antony Barnes Atkinson (1995), Public Economics in Action.   

• Walter van Trier (1995), Every One a King: An Investigation into the Meaning and Significance of the Debate on Basic Incomes with Special Reference to Three Episodes from the British Inter-War Experience. 

• Thomas Paine (1796), Agrarian Justice. See also: Wikipedia: Agrarian Justice.   

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Journal Articles and other papers

 

•  NZ  Iain Middleton (Jan 2018 - July 2019), Basic Income: A means to combat the marginalisation of vulnerable workers in precarious employment  

•  NZ  Jenna Lynch (3 August 2018), Treasury officials recommend Government look at universal basic income, Newshub

• David Calnitsky (18 Feb 2016), '“More Normal than Welfare”: The Mincome Experiment, Stigma, and Community Experience.' Canadian Review of Sociology.

•  NZ   Susan St John (Feb 2015), Improving the affordability of New Zealand Superannuation, Retirement Policy and Research Centre, Economics Department, Business School, The University of Auckland. This paper shows how changing NZ superannuation recipients to a flat tax will improve the targeting and lower the cost of the scheme.

• Simon Clark (2008), A basic income for Russia? AVINUS Magazin (2008)

• Pavlina R. Tcherneva (Jan 2006),   Universal assurances in the public interest: evaluating the economic viability of basic income and job guarantees, International Journal of Environment Workplace and Employment 2(1)  

• J.E. King & John Marangos (2006), Two Arguments for Basic Income: Thomas Paine (1737-1809) and Thomas Spence (1750-1814) History of Economic Ideas, XIV/2006/1

• Ingrid Roebyns (Jan 2001), "Will a basic income do justice to women?", Analyse & Kritik, 23(1): 88-105)

• Charles Clark and Catherine Kavanagh "Basic Income, Inequality, and Unemployment", Journal of Economic Issues June 1996.  

• Brian Burkitt & Francis Hutchinson (1994) "Major Douglas' Proposal for a National Dividend", International Issue for Social Economics 21(1): 19-28  February 1994. 

 

Articles in the Media

 

• Ellie Mae O'Hagan (The Guardian - June 23, 2017), Love the idea of a universal basic income? Be careful what you wish for  

• Chris Weller (Business Insider UK - October 12, 2016), President Obama: We'll be debating unconditional free money 'over the next 10 to 20 years'. 

•  NZ  Susan St John (interest.co.nz May 17, 2016), Rethinking retirement income doesn't require superpowers. 

•  NZ  Dan Satherley (Newshub - March 23, 2016), The Case for a Universal Basic Income 

•  NZ  Steve Hart (Weekend Herald - January 18, 2016), The benefits of a universal income  

• Brian Stewart (CBC News - June 1, 2015), Rise of the 'precariat,' the global scourge of precarious jobs  

•  NZ   Rajesh Makwana (Scoop - March 22, 2015), From Basic Income To Social Dividends: Sharing The Value Of Common Resources 

• Guy Standing (The Guardian - December 18, 2014), Basic income paid to the poor can transform lives 

•  NZ  Gill Caradoc-Davies (Otago Daily Times - April 14, 2014, Urgent need to alter NZ's wealth  

• Matthew Timms (World Finance - March 18, 2014), Will unconditional basic income solve Europe’s problems? 

• Post-Capitalism: Rise of the Collaborative Commons - The Revolution will not be Centralized. An interesting article in its own right, with a section on UBI about 3/4 of the way through. 

 

Blogs

 

• Simon Thorpe's Ideas on the Economy: Science and the Unconditional Basic Income (31 May 2015)

• Tim Harford, A universal income is not such a silly idea (27 Nov 2013) 

 

Video/Audio

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• TEDx Lake Como, Guy Standing (18 Dec 2018), Basic income: utopia or solution? 

• TEDx Hyderabad, Dr Vikas Singh (29 Oct 2018), Universal Basic Income in India

•  NZ  RNZ Interview with Dr Jess Berentson-Shaw (22 Jun 2017), The pros and cons of a UBI 

• Kurzesagt - In a Nutshell (8 Jun 2017), The Rise of the Machines - Why Automation is Different this Time

• TEDx University of Rochester, Susan Danziger (2 Jun 2017), Understanding Universal Basic Income, 

•  NZ  University of Otago Seminar with Prof. Philip Nel, Dr Murat Ungor, &  Lowell Manning (5 Apr 2017),'The BIG idea whose time has come: A basic income grant for all?'

•  NZ  Radio LIVE Interview with Dr Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy (University of Auckland) (27 Mar 2017), Should NZ introduce a universal basic income? 

• Huffington Post Interview with Max Harris (23 Mar 2017), Universal basic income could actually work, here's how 

• TEDx Indor, ASTHA KAPOOR (23 Mar 2017), Experiment with Universal Basic Income: From idea to implementation  

•  NZ  TEDx Christchurch, Raf Manji (12 Dec 2016), A Universal Income needs a focus on citizen Responsibility

•  NZ  RNZ Interview with Raf Manji (14 Nov 2016),  Is UBI an idea whose time has come? 

•  NZ  RNZ Interview with Kathryn Myronuk (7 Sep 2016), The Technological Advances Shaping Our Future  

• RT Question More, Max Keiser with Stacy Herbert and Guy Standing (1 Aug 2015), The Keiser Report 791 

• Films for Action, Whitney Mallett (10 Feb 2015), The Town Where Everyone Got Free Money 

• TEDx Maastricht, Rutger Bregman (21 Oct 2014), Why we should give everyone a basic income  

• Films for Action, David DeGraw (7 Sep 2014), The Economics of Revolution & Universal Basic Income

• Films for Action, Andrew Dolan (1 Apr 2014), 7 Reasons The Universal Basic Income Is Worth Fighting For 

 

Miscellaneous

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• BIEN - Congress 2019    

•  NZ  Sue Bradford (Sep 2018), Here Be Dragons: Navigating a Left Approach to Basic Income in Aotearoa New Zealand, COUNTERFUTURES 6

•  NZ  Gail E Duncan (Aug 2018), Economic Review of the Status of Beneficiaries in NZ. Scoop report. 

•  NZ  Iain Middleton (Jan 2018), Basic Income: A means to combat the marginalisation of vulnerable workers in precarious employment  

• BIEN - past congress papers 

• BIEN - Congress 2017 'Abstracts & Papers'  

• Unconditional basic income roundupBIEN Congress 2017 'Abstracts & Papers' 

• Hugh Segal (Nov 2016), Finding a Better Way: A Basic Income Pilot for Ontario - Update: Consultation process complete, pilot begins in late 2017. 

• BIEN (Oct 23, 2016), FRANCE: Senate Report Marks Another Milestone for Basic income

• KELA (Sept 2016) From Idea to Experiment: Report on universal basic income experiment in Finland.

• Critical Legal Thinking (Aug 2016) A feminist case for Basic Income: An interview with Kathi Weeks

•  NZ  Keith Rankin (Feb 2016), A Universal Basic Income in New Zealand? Discusses the notions of public equity and universalism in New Zealand   

•  NZ  Max Harris and Sebastian Biereema (2016), A Universal Basic Income for New Zealand, Labour Party Future of Work Commission Background Paper  

•  NZ  CAANZ/NZIER Report (Oct 2015), Disruptive Technologies, Risks, and Opportunities: Can New Zealand Make the Most of Them? 

• Jason Dorrier (Oct 2015), Soon countries won't compete for cheap labour - but robotics.  

• Alexander C. Kaufman (August 2015), Stephen Hawking says we should really be scared of capitalism, not robots.  Huffpost.

•  NZ  Lowell Manning (June 2015), Essay: Basic Income for New Zealand 

•  NZ  Keith Rankin (May 2015) Benefit increase? The truth about the 2015 budget

•  NZ  Gareth Morgan (Nov 2014), Why a flat tax is fairer, Kiwiblog, presented by a colleague 

• Jane G. Gravelle and Thomas L. Hungerford (Jan 2013), Can Contractionary Fiscal Policy Be Expansionary?  Congressional Research Service. Supports the proposition that giving money to the poor increases GDP. Partly derived from....

• Mark Zandi (2008), A Second Quick Boost From Government Could Spark Recovery. Edited excerpts of testimony Mark Zandi gave before the U.S. House Committee on Small Business on July 24, 2008. 

•  NZ  Alison Marshall (1996), UBI History in NZ

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• Queensland University of Technology website, School of Public Health and Social Work - Basic Income,  & A Short History of Basic Income in Australia and New Zealand [link broken]      

• P2P Foundation  

• Wikipedia, Basic Income         

• Wikipedia, List of Basic Income Models.

• Economists of interest or showing the viability of a universal income system:   

  • James Tobin (1918 - 2002)

  • Jan Tinbergen (1903 - 1994)

  • Herbet A. Simon (1916 - 2001)  

  • James Meade (1907 - 1995) 

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Examples of Basic Incomes in Action

 

• Alaska Permanent Fund.

• Iran Unconditional Cash Transfer System - see Djavad Salehi-Isfahani and Mohammad H. Mostafavi-Dehzooei (May 2017): Cash Transfers and Labour Supply: Evidence from a Large-Scale Program in Iran.

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