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...
02 August 2022: “Permissionless Innovation, Freedom, and Basic Income” by Dr. Otto Lehto
On Tuesday, 02 August 2022, the Basic Income Workshop Series continues with a contribution of Philosopher & former FRIBIS visiting scholar Dr. Otto Lehto: „Permissionless Innovation, Freedom, and Basic Income". He is going to present his input and subsequently...
Establishment of “Basic Income for Nature & Climate”: Interview with the team’s coordinator
The newly founded FRIBIS team Basic Income for Nature and Climate explores the connection between basic income, climate change, and biodiversity conservation. The team’s coordinator, the Indonesian researcher Ni Made Rahayu Maitri, has agreed to be interviewed about...
Lectures by Prof. Bernhard Neumärker on Basic Income in the Climate Crisis
In May 2022, Bernhard Neumärker gave two lectures addressing the potential of basic income in the climate crisis. His May 19 lecture was at the invitation of Students for Future Freiburg and was entitled "Climate Justice and New Ordoliberalism: The Case for Social...