A basic income is an income that is granted to all on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement. It is a form of minimum income guarantee that differs from those that now exist in various European countries in three important ways: • it is being paid to individuals rather than households; •…
Category: Economy
Thoughts on Guaranteed Basic Income
What would you do if a rich aunt promised to provide you with enough money to comfortably pay your rent (this is a dream with landlords), food, wine, cinema tickets and possibly also that internet flatrate? This is the question posed by the guaranteed basic income – debated among French, English and more recently German…
The Green concept of work
The persistence of a growth-based economy has led to a crisis in the industrial societies based on the production of material richness and paid forms of work. Today’s developed societies have managed to reduce their dependence on human labour time and strength more than ever: computers, networks, automatic processes and devices are now essential parts…
Climate change and the world economical order
The climate change issue is usually addressed either as a natural catastrophe or a problem that can be corrected through small changes in our lives. But few make a connection between the current economical order and our problems with the weather. The truth is that the whole way of understanding Economy should be changed. The…
Greens and the Economy
I am so glad I was in Rome for the founding of the first ever European party, the European Greens. The youth conference before the main congress was also one of the high points as I attended the excellent working group on “Is ideology lost in Green parties?”. This working group involved heated arguments which…
After the development
“Development” is a term used in biology to express such things as the blooming of flowers. Its sense of acquiring material prosperity, sense that is now the most obvious to us, was born a bit more than fifty years ago. The inventor of this notion is Harry Truman, in his 1949 speech on the ***. During…