Citizen's Income learnings

1) introduction

a) concept explained

b) history

c) state of global movement

d) concept in Canada

2) application

a) definitions

b) modelling

c) trojan horses

d) socio-political
consequences

3) vectors

a) housing

b) democracy

c) ecologically balanced economy

d) population stability

4) active citizenship

a) sense

b) right and wrong practise

c) supression

d) strategy

5) constructing alternative frame

a) moralistic objections

b) economistic objections

c) political objections

d) social/biological objections

6) miscellaneous

a) in the meantime

b) theoretizing

c) feminism

d) statistics




1) introduction

a) concept explained

BASIC INCOME ; ? Greater Freedom of Choice Through Greater Economic Security of the Person. William D. Clegg, B.A. Phil

( Citizens for Public Justice position paper on Guaranteed Liveable Income by Chandra Pasma)

(THE NEED FOR INCOME SECURITY by Guy Standing)

(Weighing trade-offs on poverty by Carol Goar)

(Moving to Basic Income ? A Right-Wing Political Perspective: Senator Hugh D. Segal )

(Move towards introducing a Basic Income system by Sean Healy and Brigid Reynolds)

(The five principles of any legitimate BI/CI/GAI plan, according to Guy Standing)

(elaborations on Basic income Guy Standing)

Four strands of thought come together in CI

Basic Income should be adequate and universal by Victor Milne

THE ABOLITION OF THE UNEMPLOYED: Researchers Urge Freedom Instead of Full Employment; By Katrin Pinetzki

What is a Guaranteed Livable Income? by C. L'Hirondelle 2009

Possibilities and Prospects The Debate Over a Guaranteed Income:Margot Young & James P Mulvale

b) history

(separating work from survival by Jim Smith)

Welfare Myths

In the Shadow of Speenhamland: Social Theory and the Old Poor Law by Fred Block

longer version of the above, in PDF.

Why Not Guarantee Everyone a Job? Why the Negative Income Tax Experiments of the 1970s were Successful. By Allan Sheahen

Book review; Brian Steensland, "The Failed Welfare Revolution: America's Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy." Cristian Perez Munoz

A history of Basic Income according to BIEN (Basic Income earth Network)

Historical Context of the Work Ethic Roger B. Hill, Ph.D. 1996

) c) state of global movement

(Namibians line up for Free Cash-BBC)

"Moving to Basic Income (BI) - A left-wing political perspective" by Katja Kipping

(How Cash Transfers Promote the Case for Basic Income by Guy Standing)

how Citizen's Income in the U.K. explain themselves

Basic Income; the material conditions of freedom by Daniel Raventos

UNIVERSAL CITIZEN'S PENSION IN MEXICO CITY Pablo Yanes

"Just give money to the poor" by Mercedes Sayagues

Can Unconditional Cash Transfers Work? They Can. Guy Standing

Manifesto: A Basic Income in the Current Situation of Economic Crisis; Red Renta Basica ( Spain)

Citizen's Income and the Crash: Credit, Debt and Citizen's Income (2009) Bill Jordan

The BIG in Namibia Basic Income Grant Pilot Project Assessment Report, April 2009

Does everyone have the right to a Basic Income Guarantee? by Allen Sheahan

d) concept in Canada

(Desperately Seeking a New Model of Economic Security for Canada: The Basic Income Approach; by Jim Mulvale)

( Basic Income and the Canadian Welfare State: Exploring the Realms of Possibility: by Jim Mulvale)

(Challenging Income (in)security: Lone Mothers and Precarious Employment by Patricia M. Evans, PhD)

(Welfare study shows need for guaranteed income by Senator Hugh Segal)

Income guarantee deserves new look

Reconstructing the DNA of Income Security for Working Age Adults in Canada by John Stapleton

DEBATE: Should Canadians be guaranteed a Basic Income? Lerner el al vs. Stanford

A GUARANTEED ANNUAL INCOME? FROM MINCOME TO THE MILLENNIUM
by Derek Hum and Wayne Simpson

Whatever happened to Canada's guaranteed income project? Derek Hum and Wayne Simpson

Basic Income: Framing the Concept for Canada by Sally Lerner

Signs of Life in Canada's GAI Movement by Arun DuBois

Income Security for All Canadians: Understanding Guaranteed Income, Chandra Pasma and Jim Mulvale

The Manitoba Mincome study; report on Evelyn Forget's study.

What the point is of a Citizen's Income in Canada T. Rourke

2) application

a) definitions

(The Universal Guaranteed Adequate Income Plan By W. Robert Arnold)

(Senator Segal's ideas)

(low income cutoff versus market basket)

An analysis of Canada's working poor, from human resources Canada

A minimum income standard for Britain in 2009, from Joseph Roundtree foundation

A review of "Understanding Poverty" by Pete Alcock

Stats Canada on poverty and low income measures

b) modelling

Income Standards: A Challenge for Citizen's Income by Ann G. Miller

Citizen's Income; A brief introduction

anonymous U.K. blogger makes case for Basic Income

c) trojan horses


(Basic Income: a dangerous reform)

(BOOK REVIEW of Charles Murray, 'In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State'; Almaz Zelleke)

Fast Facts: Increasing the Minimum Wage vs. Income Tax Exemptions

d) socio-political consequences

National Work-Life Conflict Study

Review of Rifkin's "End of Work" by Bob Black

Economically Forced to Work: A Critical Reconsideration of the Lottery Question* Roland Paulsen

BIG in Namibia

Basic Income as a Socialist Project ; Erik Olin Wright

3) vectors

a) housing

RENT VOUCHERS AND THE PRICE OF LOW-INCOME HOUSING; By Scott Susin

Basic Incomes and Housing by Tim Rourke

for affordable housing: have Ottawa pay the rent. by Tom Kent

Unemployed tenants see work as 'unaffordable'

b) democracy

(Democracy, Human Rights and a Basic Income in a Global Era by Carole Pateman)

Macroshift: The Choice is Ours by Ervin Laszlo

Expanding Engagement: How the Citizens' Assembly is reinventing the public's role in decision-making by Dr. Amy Lang

A Basic Income as an Allowance for a Democracy By Katja Kipping

c) balanced economy

(will capitalism survive climate change?)

(SIZE MATTERS; Canada's ecological footprint, by income. From CCPA)

(Last exit for the Holocene, by Gwynne Dyer)

(Carbon tax shell game by Jerry West )

(THE THINGS THE GDP DOESN'T COUNT - JONATHAN ROWE)


Saving the environment; How Canada can abolish poverty and unemployment, even in a no-growth economy
By Gideon Rosenbluth and Peter Victor

Build transit- don't bail out cars. The new road forward might well be on rails.by Albert Koehl

The virtues of deglobalization by Walden Bello

only freedom works; reduced workweeks do not. Tim Rourke

The rich vs. the rest; Lifestyles of the rich and shameless by Hervé Kempf

d ) population stability

4) active citizenship

a) sense

(Canada, it's time to grow up by Christopher Hume)

(Twilight of the psychopaths by Dr. Kevin Barrett)

(Anti-Capitalism in Five Minutes or Less By Robert Jensen)

Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein

The Un-Doing of Anarchism by Brian Mason

The More Things Change ....By C'daoim

CULTURAL MYTH PRODUCTION IS AN ENORMOUS INDUSTRY, by Joe Bageant

b) right and wrong practise

(how to trust the internet from propagandhi list)

thinking points; winning and losing, from Rockridge institute

Consensus Decision Making

If We Are in the Death Spiral of Capitalism...By Barbara Ehrenreich and Bill Fletcher, Jr.,

a little humorous philosophy

Chandra is reading... The Political Brain By Chandra Pasma

Socialism: the Goal, the Paths and the Compass


c) supression

(Arnstein's Ladder)

(the Delphi Technique-Lynn Stuter)

(THE DIAMOND TACTIC) by G. Edward Griffin)

Pimping poverty, then and now by Adolph Reed, JR.

d) strategy

(The 'Last Recession Spook' A Very Curable Disease - John Stapleton)

(Pushing back against the bullies, by Carol Goar)

IS WELFARE A DIRTY WORD? CANADIAN PUBLIC OPINION ON SOCIAL ASSISTANCE POLICIES
by Allison Harell, Stuart Soroka and Adam Mahon

review of Steensland's "the failed welfare revolution" by T. Rourke

The Silence of the Lines; Poverty reduction Strategies and the crash of 2008 by John Stapleton

Sowing the Seeds, Ensuring the Harvest, Sally Lerner

Why we call it Citizen's Income tr

5) constructing alternative frame

a) moralistic objections

(What's Wrong with Inequality? Frank Cunningham)

(What does the Stone Age Have to do with Us?)

abolition of work by Bob Black

THE AGE Why hard work isn't working any more BY SHARON BEDER

TOIL AND TROUBLE By Molly Scott Cato

In Praise of Idleness, Bertrand Russell

Free people don't sell themselves by Noam Chomsky

Working Through the Work Disincentive by Chandra Pasma

A Deeper Look at GLI By Chandra Pasma

The End of Jobs

Economically Forced to Work: A Critical Reconsideration of the Lottery Question* Roland Paulsen

Paper for the Second New Zealand UBI Conference; excellent refutation of workfare

b) economistic objections

(Why Does Inequality Matter? Charles M. Beach)

(review of Karelis; "why the economics of the well off can't help the poor")

(Thought control in economics; Tom Green)

Absurdity of most present-day labor from Ken Knapp's "Joy of Revolution"

Reflecting on Marx and money gone mad by Duncan Cameron

Nearly everyone wants to be rich and lazy!

The case for working less by Marc Lee

A bit rich: calculating the value to society of diferent professions

The Great Tax Con Job

c) political objections

(Income Inequality and Democracy, John Myles)

(THE NEED FOR INCOME SECURITY (PART II) by Guy Standing)

C.A.N.E. on GAI

Toward Full Unemployment; Moving Beyond Wage Slavery, By Robert Theobald

MINIMUM INCOME ? MYTHS AND REALITIES. by John Veit-Wilson

CANADA'S QUIET BARGAIN The benefits of public spending By Hugh Mackenzie and Richard Shillington

CI and the right to be

d) social/biological objections

(the progress gap Carol Goar)

(BASIC INCOME ; Greater Freedom of Choice Through Greater Economic Security of the Person, William D. Clegg B.A. Phil.)

A Welfare 'Savings' Boomerang by Monte Paulsen

The Curse of Civilization: The 40 Hour Work Sentence By Craig Manelli

No Future for the Workplace by Bob Black

The Social Benefits and Economic Costs of Taxation: A Comparison of High- and Low-Tax Countries

The Depth of the Global Economic Crisis: Peeling the Onion By Bob Goudzwaard

Towards an Alternative to Globalization by Sergey A. Stroev

Absurdity of most present-day labor

Work-life conflict getting worse.

6.miscellaneous

a) in the meantime

Benefits of a strong minimum wage outweigh any costs, by Todd Scarth

On The Leisure Track by D. JoAnne Swanson

October 2008 READY FOR LEADERSHIP Canadians' perceptions of poverty By Trish Hennessy and Armine Yalnizyan

Exposed Revealing Truths About Canada's Recession By Armine Yalnizyan

A swipe from somewhere about the fundamentals of the Ontario social assistance system and the laws underlying it.

b) theoretizing

Redistribution and Recognition: Normative theories and the political economies of welfare states. by Toru Yamamori

The Sting of Poverty by Drake Bennett. Review of Karelis

c) feminism

Democratizing Citizenship: Some Advantages of a Basic Income. Carole Pateman

Institutionalizing the Universal Caretaker Through a Basic Income?Almaz Zelleke

Basic Income and the Gendered Division of Labour Julieta M. Elgarte

d)statistics

The affordability gap; spending differences between Canada's rich and poor, by Steve Kerstetter

Taking the measure of poverty; advice to the minister. We hope this is the last word on how poverty should be measured in Canada, and it was written in French first.

country note Canada: growing inequality