Announcement Seminar “Basic Income And Social Justice” at the Götz-Werner-Professorship in Summer Semester 2023
In the summer semester of 2023, the Götz Werner Professorship at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg will again offer the seminar "Basic Income and Social Justice". The seminar is aimed at Master's students with an interest in research on the topic of...
FRIBIS-Discussion-Paper: How is the declining share related to technological change – and what does this mean for the feasibility of a UBI?
As part of the FRIBIS Discussion Papers series, a new paper by Joe Chrisp, Aida Garcia-Lazaro, Nick Pearce has just been published: Technological chance and growth regimes – Assessing the case for universal basic income in an era declining labour shares. The starting...
Götz Werner and his legacy in Freiburg, on the first anniversary of his death.
The founder of the dm drugstores (dm-Drogeriemarkt), Götz W. Werner, died a year ago, on February 8, 2022, at the age of 78. He had become widely known to the public for his advocacy of a Basic Income. This income was to guarantee human dignity and be available to...
FRIBIS-Annual-Conference 2022: Impressions and review
The FRIBIS Annual Conference 2022 was entitled "Basic Income and Development" and took place in Freiburg from October 10 to 12 October 2022. In view of the current global crises, the conference posed the question to what extent a basic income could provide viable...
Keynote of Sarath Davala (BIEN): Towards a Basic Income Society: what humankind needs to do before we get there
Dr. Sarath Davala from Hyderabad, India, Chaiof the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), brings in his presentation at the FRIBIS Annual Conference 2022 the current crises together with the universal unconditional basic income (UBI). For him, the UBI is the necessary...
Miriam Laker-Oketta: Basic Income and its role in addressing climate change and biodiversity loss
An exciting and lively talk by Miriam Laker-Oketta, research director of GiveDirectly, the world's largest basic income project, on the role basic income plays in fighting climate change and preserving biodiversity. From her rich experiential knowledge, Miriam...
Proceedings of the 2021 FRIBIS Annual Conference published: Financial Issues of a Universal Basic Income (UBI)
In 2021, the first FRIBIS annual conference took place in Freiburg, Germany. It was dedicated to the topic "Financial Issues of a Universal Basic Income". Now the contributions have been published by LIT Verlag Berlin, edited by Bernhard Neumärker and Jessica...
Workshop announcement: Universal Basic Income’s Social-Ecology? Theory and Evidence revisited
In face of the growing ecological, social and economic crisis we are witnessing, it is timely to revisit universal basic income theory and evidence on the instrument’s contested social and ecological consequences. To do this, and as a kick-off event to the UBITrans’s...
FRIBIS at the BIEN Congress 2022: Basic Income in Times of Crisis and Transformation
From September 26 to 28, 2022, the 21st Congress of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) will take place in Brisbane (Australia). Numerous members of FRIBIS will participate as speakers at the congress, which will be dedicated to the theme "What can basic income...
Philippe Van Parijs about BIEN: The precarious beginnings of a worldwide network
Image: BIEN founding conference, Louvain-la-Neuve, September 1986. Facing the lecture room, from left to right: Bill Jordan, Claus Offe, Philippe Van Parijs, Nic Douben, Annie Miller, Greetje Lubbi, Riccardo Petrella Basic Income Earth Network has made a crucial...
NetFi team coordinator Teodoro Criscione co-authored two papers on community currencies
Both papers are available online:E. S. Mattsson, T. Criscione and W.O. Ruddick, Sarafu Community Inclusion Currency, 2020-2021. Scientific Data 9:426, Nature Publishing Group, 2022. Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01539-4We describe a dataset of...
Basic Income and Sustainability: Perspectives from Constitutional Economics and Cultural Studies (Tandem Lecture)
On July 6, 2022, Bernhard Neumärker, Director of the Götz Werner Chair for Economic Policy and Constitutional Theory and head of FRIBIS, and Sebastian Kaufmann, Research Center "Nietzsche Commentary" of the Heidelberg Academy Of Sciences and Humanities and member of...