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1984 - 1992

The Basic Income Research Group published the BIRG Bulletin. 15 (No's 1 - 15) Bulletins were published during this period.

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Bulletin No 1, Autumn 1984

  • Better than Beveridge, Basic Incomes would help achieve.....

Bulletin No 2, November/December 1984

  • Basic Incomes - How they might work.
  • Rights and ResponsibilitiesEnding the Poverty trap.
  • A stake in the Future Economy

Bulletin No 3, Spring 1985

  • Viewpoint: A new deal for all, Keith Roberts
  • Costing Basic Incomes, Hermione Parker
  • Going, going ... gone: the vanishing right of young people to supplementary benefit, Douglas Smith

Bulletin No 4, Autumn 1985

  • Out of touch; The Fowler reforms of social security, Robert Morley
  • The debate about costing, Hermione Parker
  • Basic Income and young people, BIRG Youth Group
  • Viewpoint: A two-tier Basic Income and a national minimum wage, Robin Smail

Bulletin No 5, Spring 1986

  • Social security, taxation and family financial arrangements, Jan Pahl
  • Basic Incomes, some practical considerations, Philip Vince
  • Public support for families with children; a study in British politics, Sir John Walley
  • Cash and caring, R.A.B. Leaper
  • Viewpoint: Realistic radicalism, Malcolm Torry

Bulletin No 6, Autumn 1986

  • A Basic Income for youth, Paul Lewis
  • Basic Incomes and elderly people, BIRG Elderly Group
  • Safeguarding social security in the Netherlands, Jos Dekkers
  • Poverty and adequacy, Anne Miller
  • Letter from Andrew Brown
  • The case for a guaranteed income in France, Bruno Couder
  • Childminding costs, Sue Owen
  • Journey-to-work costs, Martin J.H. Mogridge
  • Viewpoint: Service Credits: a new currency, Edgar Cahn

Bulletin No 7, Spring 1988

  • What are Basic Incomes? , Bill Jordan
  • Are Basic Incomes feasible? , Hermione Parker
  • Alternatives to Basic Income, Fran Bennett
  • The implications of BI for people with disabilities, BIRG Disability Working Group
  • removal of private pension tax relief's: viewpoint from an actuary, Geraldine Kay
  • Mutual responsibility, Malcolm Torry
  • Viewpoint: Towards an income and work guarantee, Peter Ashby

Bulletin No 8, Autumn 1988

  • Defining Basic Income, Tony Walter
  • Administration of integrated tax/benefit systems, Hermione Parker and Andrew Dilnot
  • Towards a BI democracy, David Purdy
  • Analysis of a partial Basic Income, Tony Atkinson and Holly Sutherland
  • A European guaranteed Basic Income system? , Nel van Dijk
  • Viewpoint: 'If any would not work, neither should he eat', James Robertson

Bulletin No 9, Spring/Summer 1989

  • Existence income and activity income, Henri Guitton
  • Can it happen? , Susan Raven talks to Frank Field MP
  • Denmark's Basic Pension, Adam Trier
  • Proposals for a Basic Income in the Republic of Ireland, Chris O'Malley MEP
  • Viewpoint: A place at the board, Kevin Donnelly

Bulletin No 10, Autumn/Winter 1989

  • Topsy-turvy nationalisation, James Meade
  • Breaking the poverty trap: A Basic Income, Paddy Ashdown MP
  • Proposals for a guaranteed minimum income in Italy, Maria Luisa Mirabile
  • Citizenship, Basic Income and democracy, David Purdy
  • Pensions, taxes and welfare, T.A. Salter
  • Viewpoint: Basic Income: value or price? , Conall Boyle

Bulletin No 11, July 1990

  • The Third Age, Charles Handy
  • The Poverty Trap: poor people's accounts, Bill Jordan with Simon James
  • Basic Income: alternative benefit or new paradigm, Joop Roebroek and Eric Hoogenboom
  • Can it happen? , Susan Raven talks to Sally Greengross and Sue Slipman
  • Getting paid for doing nothing: plain justice or ignominy? , Philippe van Parijs
  • Citizen's Income, Philip Vince
  • Viewpoint: Basic Incomes and industrial development, Victor Ourbridge

Bulletin No 12, February 1991

  • The Alaska Permanent Fund and dividend distribution programme, J. Patrick O'Brien and Dennis O. Olsen
  • Terminology, Hermione Parker
  • Basic Income as a lever for economic efficiency, Ken Mayhew
  • How much is enough? , Jonathan Bradshaw
  • Towards a full BI, Greetje Lubbi
  • Can a BI-type scheme be made affordable? , Steven Webb
  • Australia: arguments for Basic Income in a poor-law welfare state, Peter Travers
  • Viewpoint: the rights of children - a justification of Basic Income, hitherto unremarked, Maire Mullarneyh

Bulletin No 13, August 1991

  • Solidarity, Mark Boeuf
  • Basic Income in the new Europe, James Meade
  • Child Benefit, Child Tax Allowances and Basic Incomes, Hermione Parker and Holly Sutherland
  • Can it happen? , Susan Raven talks to Sir Ralf Dahrendorf
  • Income Distribution in Czechoslovakia, Jiri Vecernik
  • Basic Incomes, democracy and the labour marker, Georg Vobruba
  • Viewpoint: Basic Income, An inner city perspective, Keith Argyle

Bulletin No 14, February 1992

  • What the politicians say, Michael Meacher and Paddy Ashdown
  • Communicating Basic Income, David Smith
  • The jobs dilemma: ecological versus economic issues, Sylke Nissen
  • Modest-but-adequate food budgets, Michael Nelson and Anne-Marie Mayer
  • The two Williams, Malcolm Torry
  • Freeing up the labour market? , Jean-Yves Duclos
  • Viewpoint: Action for the unemployed, Philip Riley

Bulletin No 15, July 1992

  • Make it BIG, Meghnad Desai Eurogrant, Michel Genet and Philippe van Parijs
  • A Christian slant on Basic Income, Ronald Preston
  • Demogrant transfers in Canada and the Basic Income standard, Derek Hum and Wayne Simpson
  • Social Security in Greece, Gabriel Amitsis
  • The politics of Citizen's Income: a wake and an awakening, Bill Jordan
  • How claimants react to BI, Rik van Berkel and Theo Hindriks
  • Viewpoint: Left out: The Labour Party and Basic Income, Kevin Donnelly
 

 

 

 

 

 


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