How does basic income support artistic and creative work? The issues: Artistic and creative work adds economic value to society, but it is often valued only for its potential contribution to economic growth. Artistic and creative work is also intrinsically valuable, but this receives little recognition. There is also a Read more…
When Basic Income Ireland members do a presentation on basic income, we always get asked about costings. So that’s why we have spent some time working on them, and you can see an example in our leaflet. William Clegg, a members and supporter who lives in Canada, thinks it is Read more…
Basic Income Ireland member Roisin Mulligan has been awarded the 2012 Basic Income Studies Essay prize for her paper “Universal Basic Income and Recognition Theory – A Tangible Step towards an Ideal.” This prize is given for the best paper presented at the BIEN biennial congress and will be published Read more…
An earlier version of this article was published in April 2013 by Feasta: The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability. www.feasta.org Anne B Ryan Introduction The system for social security as it has developed in Ireland and many other European countries is not working. It was designed for a different era, Read more…
About thirty people attended the Basic Income Ireland website launch and participatory event at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, on March 7th, 2013. We briefly introduced the concept of basic income, how it can be paid for and what the Basic Income Ireland network hopes to achieve. Our chief Read more…
We are pleased to announce the first public meeting for Basic Income Ireland, which will take place at NUI Maynooth on the evening of Thursday, 7 March. All are invited to attend this event. For full details click on the ‘read more’ link below… You are invited to the first Read more…