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...
“Is a Penny a Month a Basic Income?” – Best Paper Award for Toru Yamamori from the FRIBIS Team Universal Basic Income & Gender
In his new paper: "Is a Penny a Month a Basic Income? A Historiography of the Concept of a Threshold in Basic Income", Prof. Toru Yamamori examines the definition of Universal Basic Income under the question of a threshold. Based on its basic pillars:...
May/June 2022: Basic Income Workshop Series hosted by Karl Widerquist (online)
In the summer term 2022 Karl Widerquist was hosting a workshop series that featured lectures by international guest speakers from the field of basic income research. Detailed Information and the Live-Stream-Link you can find below. Six lectures had been scheduled for...
14 June 2022: Talk on the justification and the need for the Catalan Basic Income Pilot by Bru Laín and Àngel Ferrero
Àngel Ferrero, media spokesman for the Office of the Pilot Project for the Implementation of an Universal Basic Income in Catalonia, will be giving a brief introduction about the Office and will be talking about its history, structures and functions. Then, Bru Laín...
16 May 2022: Lecture at University Freiburg on the prehistory of private property by Karl Widerquist
On May 16, 2022, Götz Werner Visiting Professor Karl Widerquist will give a lecture on the prehistory of private property and its implications for modern political theory. In 2021 he published a monograph on the lecture topic together with Grant S. McCall. This book...