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Scientific paper • 2016

Prospects of an unconditional basic income in a degrowth economy

It is already evident that current present-day industrial nations can offer a basic income without risking the collapse of the economy. Even the supply with an unconditional basic income (UBI) is imaginable. However, it is not obvious whether an UBI sufficing for more than the subsistence consumption can be realized in a degrowth economy. A simple mathematical model is applied to estimate the...

Presentation • 2016

Grundeinkommen als Demokratiepauschale

By: Katja Kipping

Vortrag von Katja Kipping beim 16. BIEN-Kongress in Seoul 2016.

Interview • 2015

Vidéo : « Un Projet de Décroissance » à l’Alter JT

By: Vincent Liegey, L’AJT

alterjt.tv: L’AJT+ reçoit Vincent Liegey, porte parole du Parti pour la Décroissance et co-auteur de « Un projet de décroissance. Pour une dotation inconditionnelle d’autonomie ». Qu’est ce que la décroissance ? D’où vient- elle ? Comment organiser l’autonomie des citoyens ? Découvrons cette société post- moderne avec l’un de ses défenseurs les plus pédagogues.

Presentation • 2015

UBI, a springboard toward sustainable and desirable Degrowth

By: Vincent Liegey

Talk at the "International Basic Income conference - 23 November 2015" in Budapest. Vincent Liegey (Interdisciplinary researcher, Co-author of "A Degrowth Project", Coordinator of the Degrowth Conference, Budapest 2016, Coordinator of Cargonomia) talks about Unconditional Basic Income and Degrowth, respectively about Basic Income in relation to a consumer, materialist society.

Scientific paper • 2014

Basic Income and Degrowth?

By: Claudio Cattaneo

Abstract: The paper starts from a literature review on the relationship basic income and degrowth and then develops some criticisms for which basic income might not be an adequate degrowth policy. It finally discusses the extent for which basic income might be a plausible degrowth proposal, but only as a social policy related to economic crisis (unwanted degrowth) therefore only of temporary,...

Scientific paper • 2014

Social welfare programs in Brazil and in France: assistencialism or emancipation factor?

By: Sandrine Cuvillier, Prof. Rogerio Valle

Abstract: Basic Income and its distribution is today a very disputed question. Social programs oriented to the guarantee of a minimum revenue are currently being implemented in different countries, in order to assist the very poor fractions of the population. This paper describes the origin and the evolution of some proposals and analyzes the main concepts and values defended. Successful cases...

Scientific paper • 2014

Ecological Basic Income – an Acceleration Brake

By: Ulrich Schachtschneider

Abstract: An ecological basic income is one financed through eco-taxes. This principle could both combine the necessary rise in costs of environmental goods with redistribution of income and link sufficiency with different lifestyle norms. Moreover, it can help to switch off the acceleration motors which are responsible for the ongoing social acceleration in modern societies, according to the...

Scientific paper • 2014

Labour in Germany

By: Volker Stöckel

Abstract: Here it is a special view to the relationship from three of the core-values of the german economy – the waged work volume (labour), the gross domestic (GDP) product and the stock of fixed assets (capital or curdled labour). The relationship on the scale of things, aggregated in the alpha of the Cobb-Douglas-Function over the time, shows a developement over the last 40 years and there...

Scientific paper • 2014

A full life in a degrowth society – the case for an unconditional basic income (UBI) and against modesty

By: Robert Ulmer

unconditional basic income, modesty, sufficiency

Position paper • 2014

GAP working group 2014 - Basic income

By: Degrowth Conference Leipzig 2014

Results from the GAP (Group Assembly Process) Group Basic income at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig 2014 > Universal Basic Income (UBI) would improve social justice and decrease inequalities which is a precondition for degrowth. > UBI would provide free space for discussing and testing meaningful lifestyles and production, and re-appropriating autonomy and democracy. > UBI would...

Position paper • 2014

Degrowth and Unconditional Basic Income

By: Ronald Blaschke, Stefan Füsers

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Basic income.

Position paper • 2014

Unconditional basic income, human rights-based equality and economic degrowth

By: Werner Rätz, Dagmar Paternoga

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Basic income.

Position paper • 2014

Basic Income and a Degrowth Project?

By: Vincent Liegey

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Basic income.

Presentation • 2014

Unconditional Basic Autonomy by income or infrastructure?

By: Werner Rätz, Vincent Liegey, Dagmar Paternoga, Margit Appel

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Vincent Liegey, Werner Rätz and Margit Appel Facilitation: Dagmar Paternoga From the conference programme: The essentials of the idea of an unconditional basic income are clearly related to a degrowth society. A basic income provides autonomy for...

Presentation • 2014

Ideen und Modelle Grundeinkommen – national und global

By: Ronald Blaschke

Diskissionsworkshop auf der 4. Internationalen Degrowth Konferenz für ökologische Nachhaltigkeit und soziale Gerechtigkeit in Leipzig im Jahr 2014. Gefilmt vom Youtube Kanel 2malschauen Teil 1: Vortrag Ronald Blaschke Teil 2: Diskussion Aus dem Konferenz Programm: In diesem Seminar werden die Idee, der Begriff und einige aktuell diskutierte Modelle von Grundeinkommen national und global in...

Misc • 2014

Freiheit, Gleichheit, Gelassenheit - Mit dem Ökologischen Grundeinkommen aus der Wachstumsfalle

By: Ulrich Schachtschneider

»Wenn jemand mehr vom Kuchen haben möchte, dann machen wir ihn einfach größer« – nach dieser Strategie funktionierte bisher unser Sozialstaat. Soziale Sicherheit war damit immer abhängig vom Wachstum. Doch die Praxis »Unten geben, ohne oben zu nehmen« kommt angesichts der Übernutzung natürlicher Ressourcen an ihr Ende. Und es leidet nicht nur die äußere, sondern auch die innere Natur des...

Presentation • 2014

Ökologische Erfordernisse, Armut und Grundeinkommen in der Nord-Süd-Perspektive

By: Ronald Blaschke, Simone Knapp

Diskussionsworkshop auf der 4. internationalen Degrowth Konferenz 2014 in Leipzig. Referent_innen: Knapp, Simone (Kirchliche Arbeitsstelle Südliches Afrika KASA), Blaschke, Ronald (Netzwerk Grundeinkommen) Aus dem Programmheft: Ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen ist nicht nur finanziell möglich, es ist auch politisch notwendig, da es dazu beitragen kann, das ...

Scientific paper • 2013

Should degrowth embrace the Job Guarantee?

By: Blake Alcott

Degrowth; Unemployment; Job Guarantee; Employer of last resort; Right to work; Guaranteed income

Scientific paper • 2013

Arbeit ohne Zwang – Wie wirkt sich ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen auf die Arbeitsmarktsituation aus?

By: Sebastian Levi

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Abstract: Das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen (bGE) ist ein in jüngerer Vergangenheit immer häufiger diskutierter Reformvorschlag, der unter anderem auf Grund seines vermuteten negativen Einflusses auf die Arbeitsmoral oftmals kritisch bewertet wird. Unter Bezug auf die mikroökonomische...

Position paper • 2013

A Degrowth Project: Manifesto for an Unconditional Autonomy Allowance

By: Vincent Liegey, Stéphane Madelaine, Christophe Ondet, Anne-Isabelle Veillot

www.projet-decroissance.net: ... the authors advocate for the establishment of an Unconditional Autonomy Allowance (UAA), which implies: “that people will be guaranteed the means to lead a frugal and dignified life (lodging, food, clothing, water, energy and transport) throughout their entire life”. This allowance would be primarily distributed as right of usage on water, electricity and...