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Francine Mestrum

Francine Mestrum has a PhD in social sciences. She is a researcher and activist on social development, and coordinates the network of Global Social Justice. She has worked at different European institutions and at the universities of Brussels (ULB), Antwerp and Ghent. She is now chairwoman of Global Social Justice, an association working on the promotion of transformative universal social protection and the Common Good of Humanity.

Social commons: the social protection we want

Francine Mestrum

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’.

An Alternative To De-Growth Pessimism

Francine Mestrum

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.

The Alternative Facts Of The Basic Income Movement

Francine Mestrum

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

Why Basic Income Can Never Be A Progressive Solution

Francine Mestrum

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

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