Could the Brazilian measures of income support carried out during 2020 be considered one way towards UBI? This questions is broadly addressed in the video.

Examine what would happen if we were to deploy blockchain technology at the sovereign level and use it to create a decentralized cashless economy. This book explains how finance and economics work today, and how the convergence of various technologies related to the financial sector can help us find solutions to problems, such as excessive debt creation, banks getting too big to fail, and shadow banking.

Wirtschaften, um sich selbst zu erhalten? Was eigentlich selbstverständlich ist, bleibt in der ökonomischen Theorie und in den sozialpolitischen Debatten oft nur eine Randnotiz.

Eigentlich klingt die Idee ganz simpel: Jeden Monat soll der Staat seinen Bürger*innen einen fixen Betrag aufs Konto überweisen. Einfach so. Ohne Gegenleistung, ohne Wenn und Aber. Doch so einfach ist es nicht. Wenn es um das Grundeinkommen geht, reden viele aneinander vorbei. Was geht schief in der Debatte ums Grundeinkommen? Ein Essay von Sebastian Fobbe.

Our public services are in dire need of investment. But in the middle of a debate over competing spending plans, isn’t it also time to ask what we want our public services to actually do for us? That’s the view of group of economists and campaigners who are pushing for something called ‘Universal Basic Services’ – a radical expansion of high-quality public services for all to areas like transport, childcare and social care.