Karl Widerquist will be Visiting Professor at the Götz Werner Chair in the first half of 2022
The Götz Werner Chair (GWP) will be hosting the internationally renowned philosopher and economist Karl Widerquist as a visiting professor in the first half of 2022. Prof. Widerquist has made a name for himself as a researcher and advocate of basic income, not only...
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Award by the student body of the faculty for the seminar “Basic Income and Social Justice” in the Social Contract Laboratory [SoCoLab] by the Götz Werner Chair
The student body of Economics and Business Administration has awarded Prof. Bernhard Neumärker the Student Council Prize for very good teaching with an innovative offer and far-reaching commitment as the teacher of the seminar “Basic Income and Social Justice” in the...
Expedition Grundeinkommen wins the German Commitment Award 2021
On 2 December 2021 Expedition Grundeinkommen was awarded this year's German Commitment Award (“Deutscher Engagementpreis”). With the backing of FRIBIS, the Expedition is campaigning for the UBI by means of referendums to launch state-funded pilot projects in various...
Ana Helena Palermo Kuss is a finalist for the German Thesis Award of the Körber Foundation (2021)
Ms. Palermo Kuss, who received her PhD in economics from the Götz Werner Chair (GWP), is the only economist among the finalists for the German Thesis Award of the Körber Foundation. Her contribution is entitled: "Unconditional Basic Income: A concept for the welfare...
22 November 2021: Symposium of FRIBIS Visiting Scholars Catarina Neves and Roberto Merrill on Basic Income Experiments
Catarina Neves and Roberto Merrill (Portugal) will be in Freiburg as FRIBIS visiting scholars between 18 and 23 November 2021. They will offer a symposium on basic income experiments on 22 November. 22 November 2021, 6:00-8:00 p.m.:Basic Income Experiments: A Critical...
First Annual FRIBIS Conference 2021: Monetary Issues of UBI
Watch the recordings of the contributions of the first annual FRIBIS conference, 2021 on our Youtube channel. This year's the FRIBIS conference shed light on an emerging topic in economics of UBI: the monetary issues of a UBI. Monetary aspects are becoming more...
Online event on Net Basic Income: Basic Income in times of Covid-19 and post-pandemic perspectives
How does the concept of a Net Basic Income (NBI) work, which Bernhard Neumärker presented in Susanne Wiest's Bundestag petition for a basic income in times of crisis (October 2021)? What can be learned from the discussions with parliamentarians in the Committee on...
New Publication about Carbon Pricing and Social Equity in Germany
The research group arround Dr. Wolfgang Gründinger published the paper "Carbon Pricing and Social Equity in Germany" in the journal "Momentum Quarterly". Prof. Neumärker participated in this research group among others. The paper is written in German. Link to the...
Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) Congress 2021
The Basic Income Earth Network Congress will be held from Wednesday 18 – Saturday 21 August 2021. It will focus on the question of how to take Basic Income from idea to reality. The conference will be hosted on Whova, a specialist online conference platform, and will...
FRIBIS publishes two new papers on Net Basic Income
Bernhard Neumärker, Bianca Blum, Burhan Yalcin and Sema Yalcin have jointly published a new paper in the FRIBIS Discussion Paper Series, which is available in both German and English. Its topic is the counterfinancing of the Net Basic Income in times of debt-financed...
Online-Event NetFi: First results of Circles network analysis
The FRIBIS team “Network Analysis and Financial Diaries” (NetFi) is researching community currencies and investigating their use in UBI pilot projects. In the online event n August 5th 2021, the team discussed various network analysis methods that can be used to learn...
Talk by Prof. Bernhard Neumärker: Towards a UBI via the Net Basic Income
What does an unconditional basic income actually mean and how can it be paid for? And how does the Corona crisis affect the implementation of an UBI? Prof. Bernhard Neumärker addresses these questions in his lecture "The sustainable way to an unconditional basic...