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Stories and interviews focused on the party leaders of the major parties and some of the smaller parties in the parliament. A few new parties that seek more substantial innovations such as direct democracy, digital civil rights and an unconditional basic income were sparsely covered.
Of course, every political party received free airtime on public broadcasting, but that was it. The polls taken in advance of the elections only concerned the established parties. The newcomers received no attention.
Starting with the argument from non-alienation, one contribution that played a central role in the new wave of interest in basic income among European scholars in the early s was the work of Robert van der Veen and Philippe Van Parijs. To the extent that it would imply a step in the direction away from comprehensive income-related social insurance thereby increasing the relative importance of private insurance and insofar as it may reduce rather than supplement the power of unions supporting individual instead of collective bargaining power , it may have problematic repercussions on the balance of power between labor and capital and, more broadly, between politics and the market cf. Having a basic income available, I think, is crucial to enabling people to live as they would like to live and not as they have to because of the circumstances in which they find themselves. Basic income worldwide: Horizons of reform. Cassassas , J. Most Read Articles.
They have just released some of their preliminary findings, and results are extremely encouraging. The study was conducted in 20 rural villages in India. Children received Rupees. The money was distributed unconditionally. Residents were told they could do whatever they wanted with the money. Positive results were found in terms of nutrition, health, education, housing and infrastructure, and economic activity. The researchers found that the cash transfer group spent significantly more on eggs, meat, and fish than the control group.
Researchers found a positive impact on health and access to medical treatment. The most visible impact of the study was on educational attainment.
Researchers found increased spending on school-related items such as school uniforms, school fees, shoes for school, books, school supplies, and private tuition. School attendance in the cash transfer villages shot up, three times the level of the control villages. Performance in school improved significantly relative to control villages. There was increased investment in housing, such as the installation of in-door plumbing. Twice the number of cash transfer households started new activity over the study period as those in non-cash transfer villages.
SEWA has released a video explain the results and including interviews with participants in the study. This video explains the results of the Indian basic income pilot project. It includes interviews with participants in the study. It is also the first published book in which I begin to outline—however tentatively—my theory of justice.
The basic income guarantee is intimately tied up with this theory of justice, and so I would like to take this opportunity to explain some of the background that led me to write it. The general philosophical outlook is something that has been bouncing around in my head for a long time. My interest in social justice began when I was a kid. My parents were politically interested, liberal Christians a rarity these days.
They, my brother, my sister, and I regularly discussed politics around the dinner table. Growing up in that context in the s, I was optimistic about the progress the United States had made against racism, and I began to believe that the biggest problem remaining in most democratic countries is the horrible way we treat the poor. He presented it mostly as a way to simplify the welfare system, but having thought about it over the years, I began to see it as the centerpiece of a just society and a serious challenge to the Left: If we really care about other people in society, we should care about them unconditionally.
The effort that has so far resulted in this book is a self-exploration of why I think this perspective is so important. As I see it, from the hanging gardens of Babylon to the modern sweatshop, one social problem occurs over and over again in different ways: advantaged people force disadvantaged people to serve them. Can this be justified?
Right-libertarians talk about freedom from force, but they invite everyone to ignore the tremendous amount of freedom-threatening force involved in the establishment and maintenance of property rights to the earth and all its products. These discussions usually turned to politics, and one day we found the one thing we could all agree on was an unconditional basic income guarantee. One paper on the basic income guarantee led to another as well as to involvement with the Basic Income Earth Network and to writing the Newsletter for the U.
Basic Income Guarantee Network. I read a lot of impressive literature on basic income, but none of it quite seemed to articulate the reasons I thought it was so important. So, I had to explore my ideas further. By this time I had realized that my interest in economics was secondary to my interest in social justice, and I decided that the best way to work full-time on social justice was to go back to graduate school and get a doctorate in political theory. Getting a second doctorate still feels like a crazy idea, but in hindsight, it was the right thing for me.
Many of the ideas in this book appeared first in that thesis—often in a slightly different form. So, thanks. Since leaving Oxford, I have continued to rework and extend the ideas from my thesis on and off while working on other projects. Not long after Laurie Harting of Palgrave Macmillan approached me about becoming series editor for their new book series Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, I thought about turning my thesis into a book.
In the spring of , I set out to do that, but as I revised it, I found that the chapters in the first half were growing and splitting into more chapters. The book defines, derives, and defends this theory of freedom in the context of the contemporary literature on freedom and justice. It examines the implications of the theory and argues that a basic income guarantee is an important tool to maintain personal independence in a modern society. Now that the book is almost ready to be released, I still feel that it is tentative in many ways.
I could spend years revising it, but it is best to get it out. Although tentative, it is a sincere expression of my beliefs on the issues discussed at this point. I hope to explore these ideas much more in the future. The declining dividend does not mean that the PFD is in trouble. It closed the fiscal year at The dividend was low this year because the state uses a complex formula averaging the returns over a five-year period to determine yearly returns. The five-year average was chosen to smooth out fluctuations in market returns to create a more stable dividend, but—as Alaskans can easily see—a five-year average is not enough to do that job.
Markets tend to have stable long-term trends, but they can have occasionally large yearly fluctuations either up or down that can dwarf a five-year average. The mids market boom, and the market bust were just such fluctuations.
Now, several years later with the boom returns falling out of the calculations but the decline still in, the market bust affects the dividend the more than it did at the time. Most financial managers agree that an individual can afford to withdraw up to 4 percent of a well-invested diversified portfolio and still expect it to grow in real terms over time.