It's Basic Income

Stewart Lansley is a visiting fellow at the School of Policy Studies, University of Bristol and at London's City University and the author of A Sharing Economy, Policy Press, 2016 and Breadline Britain, Oneworld (with Jo Mack), 2015.

Amy Downes is the Co-founder of Work till Late design studio and communications consultancy. Her interest in the topic of Basic Income stems from her time studying philosophy and social justice and welfare.

Introduction ~ Amy Downes and Stewart Lansley;
Part I: The case for;
As artificial intelligence and robotics advance, a basic income may be the only viable solution ~ Martin Ford;
Could a universal basic income become the basis for working better in a fast-changing world? ~ Eduardo Rodriguez;
An economic shock absorber ~ Chris Oestereich;
Questioning the natural order ~ Brian Eno;
To keep music alive ~ Toby Deller;
Feminist Reflections on basic income ~ Ursula Barry;
Women, motherhood and care ~ Vanessa Olorenshaw;
My own private basic income ~ Karl Widerquist;
Coming off the fence on UBI ~ Ruth Lister;

Part II: Towards tomorrow's society;
A new politics ~ Anthony Painter, Royal Society of Arts;
UBI for the post-industrial age ~ Roope Mokka and Katariina Rantanen, Demos Helsinki;
A down payment on a new, cooperative economy ~ Avi Lewis and Katie McKenna, Leap Manifesto;
Basic income: a solution to which challenge ~ Brenton Caffin, Nesta, UK;
What we talk about when we talk about work ~ Olivia Hanks, Norwich Radical;
It's time to stop tinkering ~ Jonathan Bartley and Caroline Lucas, UK Green Party;
How I learnt to stop worrying and love basic income ~ Jonathan Reynolds MP, Labour;
Trust trumps control ~ Uffe Elbaek, Alternativet, Denmark;

Part III: Dissenting voices;
Why basic income can never be a progressive solution ~ Francine Mestrum;
A powerful tax engine pulling a tiny cart ~ Ian Gough;
A Basic Income and the Democratisation of Social Policy ~ Peter Beresford OBE;
Why a basic income is not good enough ~ Ed Whitfield;
Unconditional basic income is a dead end ~ Anke Hassel;

Part IV: Approaches to implementation;
Basic income and social democracy ~ Philippe van Parijs;
History and the contemporary UK debate ~ Malcolm Torry, Citizen's Income Trust;
Basic income and the democratisation of development in Europe ~ Louise Haagh;
The Indian experience: The debt trap ~ Sarath Davala;
The Indian experience: The impact on women and girls ~ Soumya Kapoor;
A Scottish pilot ~ Annie Miller;
The libertarian case for UBI ~ Matt Zwolinski;
For us all: redesigning social security for the 2020s ~ Andrew Harrop;
Making UBI work: the incremental approach ~ Stewart Lansley and Howard Reed;

Part V: Year of the trials;
An earthquake in Finland ~ Otto Lehto;
Growing a movement: the Canadian context ~ Roderick Benns and Jenna van Draanen;
The post social democratic pathway for the 21st Century; The Dutch example ~ Alexander de Roo;
The California Experiment ~ Elizabeth Rhodes, Y Combinator, USA;
`Eight':The Ugandan pilot ~ Steven Janssens, Belgium;
The Kenyan experiment ~ Give Directly;
Brazil: a basic income experiment as a citizen-to-citizen project ~ Bruna Augusto and Marcus Brancaglione;

Part VI: The way forward;
Building momentum ~ Amy Downes and Stewart Lansley.