Book Presentation and Expert Workshop on Universal Basic Income and Social Power at the University of Freiburg (September 4 and 5, 2024)
On September 4 and 5, 2024, FRIBIS is set to host two events on the topic of UBI and its potential to foster social power and freedom. On September 4, 2024, the new book Unconditional Freedom: Universal Basic Income and Social Power by David Casassas will be presented...
Now on YouTube: Vincent Liegey – A Degrowth Perspective on UBI (Basic Income Politics Talk Series)
Vincent Liegey gave a talk on April 18, 2024, about the integration of Universal Basic Income (UBI) into the degrowth movement. His talk was part of the "Basic Income Politics Talk Series," which is organized by the Bath UBI Beacon and the Freiburg Institute for Basic...
Participate in Basic Income Research and Earn Money: FRIBIS Team SoCoBis Hosting Basic Income Experiments in Freiburg (April 22-24)
The FRIBIS team SoCoBis is hosting a series of behavioral economics experiments at the University of Freiburg from April 22 to 24, 2024. Participants will have the opportunity to actively engage in basic income research within an interactive setting while also earning...
Call for Papers for FRIBIS Annual Conference 2024: Towards the Development of a Full UBI? (7-9 October)
Call for Papers for FRIBIS Annual Conference 2024: Towards the Development of a Full UBI? (7-9 October) FRIBIS invites you to its Annual Conference 2024 from October 7th to October 9th in Freiburg, themed "Towards the Development of a Full UBI? Perspectives on Partial...
Basic Income and Reparations (Nika Soon-Shiong, Liz Fouksman, Richard Wallace & Elise Klein)
Streamed on: March 21, 2024, 06:00-07:30 pm (UK) On March 21, 2024, our four guests, Nika Soon-Shiong, Liz Fouksman, Richard Wallace, and Elise Klein, spoke about the connections between Universal Basic Income (UBI) and the increasing calls for reparations as tools...
WEF-FABI Online Seminar Series: Ubuntu, Social Contracts, UBI, WEF-Nexus, Social Protection, and Empirical Research
Together with our partners at UNAM the WEF-FABI Team will host an online seminar series on “Ubuntu, Social Contracts, UBI, Water-Energy-Food Nexus, Social Protection, and Empirical Research,” starting on 21/03/2024. With assorted guests, the series will create a path...
Publication of two policy papers on the topic of empirical methods in basic income research
FRIBIS is pleased to announce the publication of two policy papers resulting from the discussion and insights of the second part of the FRIBIS Summer School 2023, “Empirical methods of UBI investigation”. The event took place from 11th to 14th April 2023 under the...
Talk by Otto Lehto (NYU), 7th of March 2024: “Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a tool of adaptation and discovery”
In November/December 2021 Otto Lehto, an associate Junior Researcher at FRIBIS, joined us in Freiburg as a visiting researcher at the Götz Werner Chair of Economic Policy and Order Theory. On 7 March 2024, he will be giving a lecture on basic income “as a tool of...
Thomas Straubhaar’s lecture now on YouTube: „Die 3-E des Bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens aus ökonomischer Sicht: einfach, effektiv und effizient”
On 11 January 2024, Prof. em. Dr. Thomas Straubhaar, one of the leading UBI proponents in the economic debate within the German-speaking world, came to Freiburg to give an evening lecture at the invitation of FRIBIS. "Die 3-E des Bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens aus...
Competing perspectives: Bernhard Neumärker and Giacomo Corneo on the basic income on utopia.de
An article published on 30 January 2024 by Utopia.de, a German platform that aims to promote sustainable lifestyles, came up with two opposing positions on the Universal Basic Income. Economists Bernhard Neumärker, Director of FRIBIS, and Giacomo Corneo, Professor of...
Recently published: anthology on ‘future narratives’ of the Universal Basic Income
FRIBIS is pleased to announce the publication of a new anthology: Politische Partizipation und bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen –,Narrative‘ der Zukunft ( Political Participation and Unconditional Basic Income - 'Narratives' of the Future), edited by Leon Hartmann,...
Prof. Sophia Seung-yoon Lee presents her new book and the key concept of “melting labour”
On January 24, Sophia Seung-yoon Lee, Professor of Social Policy at the Department of Social Welfare at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea, presented her new book, Varieties of Precarity. Melting Labor and the Failure to Protect Workers in the Korean Welfare State...