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BIEN working group for Clarification for BI Definition (BIEN CBID) Online Open Forum

Date: 17 July, 9am -10.30am GMT

Speaker: Tlmaque Masson-Rcipon

Title: How distinguishing between a narrow understanding and a broad understanding of the basic income concept can help contribute to the realisation of both

Abstract: What is a Basic Income ? What debates surround the way it should be defined ? Why and how do any of these debates matter at all in practice ? This presentation will try to answer these questions and defend a proposal aiming at allowing ubi activism to benefit more directly from these debates. It consist in distinguishing between on the one hand a narrow understanding of UBI as a way to distribute ressources (namely as an equal payment in cash to everyone within a target group on a regular basis without any activity condition) ; and on the other hand a broader understanding of UBI as the aspiration to the universal and unconditional guarantee of the material means of individual autonomy. The adoption of this analytical framework, it will be argued, is likely to greatly improve the focus and efficiency of ubi activism as well as to reopen very fertile fields of UBI research that have been almost entirely neglected over the last two decades.

Register: please send email to: CBIDcbidbien@gmail.com Or Toru Yamamoritoruyamamori@gmail.com

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