This essay was originally published on Basic Income News in June 2014. This book was recommended to me a a technology-based argument for the basic income guarantee (BIG), and it is, but its support is tentative and only […]
This essay was originally published on Basic Income News in December 2012. This year Alaskans received a dividend of $878, not bad compared to all the other states, but this dividend is the smallest since 2005, and it […]
This essay was originally published on Basic Income News in August 2012. Last February two conservative commentators, Bill O’Reilly and Lou Dobbs, from the Fox News Network, praised the Alaska Dividend as “a perfect Model” of what America should be […]
This summer and fall I’ll give at least ten talks in seven cities in six countries including the United States, Canada, France, Scotland, Finland, and Lithuania. Here’s the information I have on each talk so far: Friday, May 18, to Sunday, […]
This essay was originally published on Basic Income News in February 2012. The resource curse, as I see it, comes in three different forms. Alaska has avoided the first two, but whether it avoids the third remains to be seen. […]
This essay was originally published on Basic Income News in December 2011. I can’t believe the news. We are in the midst of the worst global depression in 70 years, and the governments of almost every major industrialized country are […]
This essay was originally published on Basic Income News in May 2011. In March 2011, Brazilian Senator (and tireless campaigner for BIG), Eduardo Suplicy told me and other members of the USBIG and BIEN Committees that he would soon […]
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in October 2010. The political climate in the United States has gotten increasingly unfriendly toward the Basic Income Guarantee (BIG). Since 1990s, Democrats and Republicans have agreed that any politically viable […]
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in April 2010. The Associated Press has been reporting that more than 5,000 and perhaps as many as 10,000 Mongolians have been protesting for a resource dividend. Mongolia is […]
This essay was originally published in the USBIG NewsFlash in February 2010. This issue, Volume 11, Number 55, marks the tenth anniversary of the USBIG Newsletter. The USBIG Network began over breakfast at the Kiev dinner in New York […]