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...
FRIBIS Best Paper Award 2023 for young researchers goes to Franziska Leopold and Tobias Jäger
We are delighted to start the new FRIBIS year with the FRIBIS Best Paper Award. The FRIBIS Board of Directors pays tribute to the PhD candidates, Franziska Leopold and Tobias Jäger, for their excellent contributions to the second FRIBIS Annual Conference (2022) “Basic...
FRIBIS Annual Conference 2023: Care & Gender – Potentials & Risks of UBI
The 3rd annual FRIBIS conference was held in Freiburg from October 9 to 11, 2023. It focused on two often overlooked aspects in the universal basic income (UBI) debate, namely, gender and care as central dimensions of social coexistence. The conference aimed to...
Presentation by Prof. John Davis: Technological Unemployment Creates a New Kind of Collective Property that Can Fund Basic Incomes
Since the industrial revolution, technological innovation has led to loss in Jobs on a grant scale. Until now, at least the same technologies have created different jobs that ultimately offset these losses. But will this trend keep true? Prof. Dr. John Davis thinks it...
Review of the FRIBIS Summer School 2023
In 2023, FRIBIS organised a three-part Summer School on the topic of "Empirical Methods of UBI Investigations". The aim of the series was to establish a platform for practice-oriented basic income research and to provide participants with the opportunity to exchange...
Looking back at the FRIBIS workshop ‘Universal basic income as an economic narrative?’ (September 20-22, 2023)
When it comes to ‘narratives’, at least in the German-speaking world, the term is considered an empty phrase by some while others don’t think twice when using the term to explain social phenomena. And while some talk about opposing ideas being “mere narratives”,...
Interview with Toru Yamamori (Doshisha University) from the Gender-Team on his stay in Freiburg
On a sunny Tuesday afternoon in Freiburg, Professor Toru Yamamori presented his paper as part of his guest stay at FRIBIS: Is a penny a month a basic income? A historiography of a threshold in basic income to the members of FRIBIS, as well as external interested...
Follow-up report on the Science Talk at Liefmann-Haus
Many of the most pressing problems of our time, whether climate change, inflation or demographic change, have an economic connection. Dr. Denisa Sologon (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research), Dr. Tanja Kirn, Ass.-Prof. (University of Liechtenstein) and...
Starting in Oct 2023: Politics of Basic Income Talk Series!
Starting in October 2023 and continuing monthly on every 3rd Thursday, join us for a global exploration of Universal Basic Income (UBI) politics, hosted by the Bath UBI Beacon and Freiburg Institute of Basic Income Studies (FRIBIS), in partnership with the Basic...
International research project “ecoMOD” will be developing policy options for a resilient society
Starting in autumn 2023, a new research project named ecoMOD will be launched under the coordination of FRIBIS member Dr. Tanja Kirn. The goal is to evaluate policy options for a resilient society. Central to this are the effects of demographic change on old-age...