Opinion

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Economy for the Common Good (ECG) and Unconditional Basic Income (UBI)

The question posed in the title has been put forward by four authors: Bernd Fittkau and Gerd Lauermann as representatives of the “Hamburg Regionalgruppe Gemeinwohlökonomie” (Hamburg Regional Group of the Economy for the Common Good) and Ulrich Schachtschneider and Otto Lüdemann as proponents of the idea of an Unconditional Basic […]

Unconditional basic income ‘will be liberating for everyone’

World Finance interviews Barbara Jacobson, UK organisers of the European Citizens’ Initiative for an Unconditional Basic Income, and chair of UBIE. Unconditional basic income: the key to alleviating Europe’s alarming unemployment levels, or misdirected socialist macroeconomics? World Finance talks to Barbara Jacobson, one of the organisers of the European Citizens’ […]