Basic Income Schemes

Basic Income for Ireland? - Positive News, Summer 1998

The feasibility of a generous basic income - extract from the BIEN Newsletter

Why work? The case for a citizen's basic income - The Global Ideas Bank

Green Party of England & Wales - Economic Policies (see Citizen's Income)

Separating Survival From Work: The Case for a Guaranteed Income
Article by Jim Smith

Basic Income Guarantee - USA

Basic Income European Network - (BIEN)

The IGC Guaranteed Income reference list

Universal Income Trust
According to Sarah Ayre, who writes on behalf of the Trust, it is "a non-profit, New Zealand registered, educational charity. Its purpose is to inform people about the social, environmental, and economic benefits of universal income systems i.e. economic systems that fulfill the minimum basic requirements inherent in the International Bill of Human Rights (which includes the right to be free from slave labour)."



Related Reading

The RICH Economy
- by Robert Anton Wilson, 1980

The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work (excerpts)
- by Stanley Aronowitz & William DiFazio, 1994

Post-Work: The Wages of Cybernation
- Ed. by Stanley Aronowitz & Jonathan Cutler, 1998