Saturday, September 29, 2018

UBI (and SWF-UBD)

The Case for Giving Every American a Share of a Public Wealth Fund by Jim Pugh

Common Wealth: workers' ownership in the history of socialism by Matt Bruenig

Will Your Universal Basic Income Check Soon Be in the Mail?: A Future Tense event recap. by ANTHONY NGUYEN

A radical idea for reducing inequality deserves more attention by Ryan Avent

UBI, the Unknown Ideal by Max Sawicky

Job Guarantee Programs: Careful What You Wish For by Thomas Palley

SWF+UBD by Steve Randy Waldman

Tackling Inequality Through the Social Ownership of Capital by Matt Bruenig

Opinion: All Americans would get an income boost under this new plan to share the country’s riches by Peter Barnes

The case for an American social wealth fund by Ryan Cooper

A Simple Fix for Our Massive Inequality Problem by Matt Bruenig

Robot Takeover Matters Less If We're All Shareholders by Noah Smith

A Response to Mike Konczal on the Social Wealth Fund by Matt Bruenig

Alaska Gives Cash To Its Citizens Every Year. The Rest Of The U.S. Could Too. by David Dayen

The big idea that could make democratic socialism a reality by Matt Yglesias

Why We Need a Social Wealth Fund by Peter Gowan

I Do Not Understand Why the Left Should Want a Sovereign Wealth Fund by Mike Konczal

A “SOCIAL WEALTH FUND” COULD BE THE NEXT BIG IDEA by Rachel M. Cohen

Stockton’s Awesome Public Experiment by Jeff Spross

Why reform conservatives should embrace a universal basic income by Jeff Spross

'I feel very betrayed': Basic-income recipients react to one of the world's largest experiments suddenly being canceled (BusinessInsider)

Could a Universal Basic Income Become a Political Reality? by Clio Chang

Why the world should adopt a basic income by Guy Standing

Labour set to include pilot of radical basic income policy in next manifesto, John McDonnell says

Universal basic income vs jobs guarantees: which one will make us happier? by Cory Doctorow

Universal Basic Income Is Not the Solution to Poverty by Felix Salmon

What if the Government Gave Everyone a Paycheck? by Robert Reich

Here’s the one book every millennial and Gen Z new graduate should read (and it’s not Dr. Seuss) by Erin Kaine (on David Graeber)

"My forthcoming book will be called "The Case For People's QE" and will be published by Polity, probably in Spring 2019." - Frances Coppola

Who Really Stands to Win from Universal Basic Income? By Nathan Heller

Do We Need a Universal Basic Income? A Debate. BY MATT BRUENIG REBUTTAL BY ROHAN GREY & RAÚL CARRILLO

excellent podcast on JG-UBI by Current Affairs

BASIC INCOME, NOT BASIC JOBS: AGAINST HIJACKING UTOPIA by Scott Anderson

JOB GUARANTEE: MARXIST OR KEYNESIAN? by Chris Dillow


My impression of job guarantee advocates, which I am afraid you are not doing much to dispel, is that they are not willing to admit that their preferred approach ahas any drawbacks, or that any alternatives have any merits.

Smile by Steve Randy Waldman