Amy Downes & Stewart Lansley 
It’s Basic Income [PDF ebook] 
The Global Debate

Introduction ~ Amy Downes and Stewart Lansley;

Part I: The case for;

As artificial intelligence and robotics advance, a basic income may be the only viable solution ~ Martin Ford;

Could a universal basic income become the basis for working better in a fast-changing world? ~ Eduardo Rodriguez;

An economic shock absorber ~ Chris Oestereich;

Questioning the natural order ~ Brian Eno;

To keep music alive ~ Toby Deller;

Feminist Reflections on basic income ~ Ursula Barry;

Women, motherhood and care ~ Vanessa Olorenshaw;

My own private basic income ~ Karl Widerquist;

Coming off the fence on UBI ~ Ruth Lister;

Part II: Towards tomorrow’s society;

A new politics ~ Anthony Painter, Royal Society of Arts;

UBI for the post-industrial age ~ Roope Mokka and Katariina Rantanen, Demos Helsinki;

A down payment on a new, cooperative economy ~ Avi Lewis and Katie Mc Kenna, Leap Manifesto;

Basic income: a solution to which challenge ~ Brenton Caffin, Nesta, UK;

What we talk about when we talk about work ~ Olivia Hanks, Norwich Radical;

It’s time to stop tinkering ~ Jonathan Bartley and Caroline Lucas, UK Green Party;

How I learnt to stop worrying and love basic income ~ Jonathan Reynolds MP, Labour;

Trust trumps control ~ Uffe Elbæk, Alternativet, Denmark;

Part III: Dissenting voices;

Why basic income can never be a progressive solution ~ Francine Mestrum;

A powerful tax engine pulling a tiny cart ~ Ian Gough;

A Basic Income and the Democratisation of Social Policy ~ Peter Beresford OBE;

Why a basic income is not good enough ~ Ed Whitfield;

Unconditional basic income is a dead end ~ Anke Hassel;

Part IV: Approaches to implementation;

Basic income and social democracy ~ Philippe van Parijs;

History and the contemporary UK debate ~ Malcolm Torry, Citizen’s Income Trust;

Basic income and the democratisation of development in Europe ~ Louise Haagh;

The Indian experience: The debt trap ~ Sarath Davala;

The Indian experience: The impact on women and girls ~ Soumya Kapoor;

A Scottish pilot ~ Annie Miller;

The libertarian case for UBI ~ Matt Zwolinski;

For us all: redesigning social security for the 2020s ~ Andrew Harrop;

Making UBI work: the incremental approach ~ Stewart Lansley and Howard Reed;

Part V: Year of the trials;

An earthquake in Finland ~ Otto Lehto;

Growing a movement: the Canadian context ~ Roderick Benns and Jenna van Draanen;

The post social democratic pathway for the 21st Century; The Dutch example ~ Alexander de Roo;

The California Experiment ~ Elizabeth Rhodes, Y Combinator, USA;

‘Eight’:The Ugandan pilot ~ Steven Janssens, Belgium;

The Kenyan experiment ~ Give Directly;

Brazil: a basic income experiment as a citizen-to-citizen project ~ Bruna Augusto and Marcus Brancaglione;

Part VI: The way forward;

Building momentum ~ Amy Downes and Stewart Lansley.

Stewart Lansley is a visiting fellow in the School of Policy Studies, the University of Bristol, a Council member of the Progressive Economy Forum and a Research Associate at the Compass think-tank. He is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and has written widely on poverty, wealth and inequality. His recent books include A Sharing Economy (2016), Breadline Britain, The Rise of Mass Poverty (with Joanna Mack, 2015) and The Cost of Inequality (2011).