
Social commons: the social protection we want
Universal basic income would offer a deadweight subsidy to low-paying employers. The route to security for all lies in the concept of ‘social commons’.
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Francine Mestrum is a researcher and activist on social development and chairwoman of Global Social Justice, an association promoting transformative universal social protection and the Common Good of Humanity. She has a PhD in social sciences and has worked at different European institutions and at the universities of Brussels (ULB), Antwerp and Ghent.

Universal basic income would offer a deadweight subsidy to low-paying employers. The route to security for all lies in the concept of ‘social commons’.

Recently more than 200 academics published an open letter in support of the demands for an economic system that abandons growth as its central objective.

A couple of days ago, I received the most recent newsletter of BIEN (Basic Income Earth Network). As always, this is very interesting literature, though

Most advocates of basic income only answer the arguments of the right – mainly concerning the willingness to work – and never imagine there can