It's Basic Income

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 McKenna, 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 Elbaek, 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.