Time to take basic income seriously?
Izabella Kaminska
Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.
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Part of the Beyond Scarcity series
- The parable of water
- The end of artificial scarcity
- Redefining labour
- Beyond GDP and the rise of the non-monetised economy
- Robots, China and demographics
- The evolution of luxury markets
- Counterintuitive insights that are only now making the mainstream now
- Time to take basic income seriously?
- On what really is different this time around
- Inflationistas and the global supply shock
- The SME demand-side problem
- What is the value of unique?
- World War Zirp
- Sugar as the new tobacco?
- Where art thou inflation?
- Google, defender of the universe
- The gamification of the economy: creating rivalry where there is none
- Behold the new, new economy?
- Information asymmetry, bad incentives and Taibbi
- Larry Summers on forwarding the Doozer economy
- Let there be bubbles!
- Secular stagnation and the paradox of worth
- The new Hanseatica, now with robot dogs
- L'embarras de richesses, crude oil edition
- Disrupting FREEDOM!
- Productivity polarisation in our 'Modern Times'
- Those incredible dropping repo rates
- Modelling the singularity
- The digital retail economy's Achilles heel
- "You see, money doesn't exist in the 24th century"
- The mainstreaming of technological abundance thinking
- How information technology is shrinking the pie
- About those possible limits to creative destruction...
- The parable of water
- The end of artificial scarcity
- Redefining labour
- Beyond GDP and the rise of the non-monetised economy
- Robots, China and demographics
- The evolution of luxury markets
- Counterintuitive insights that are only now making the mainstream now
- Time to take basic income seriously?
- On what really is different this time around
- Inflationistas and the global supply shock
- The SME demand-side problem
- What is the value of unique?
- World War Zirp
- Sugar as the new tobacco?
- Where art thou inflation?
- Google, defender of the universe
- The gamification of the economy: creating rivalry where there is none
- Behold the new, new economy?
- Information asymmetry, bad incentives and Taibbi
- Larry Summers on forwarding the Doozer economy
- Let there be bubbles!
- Secular stagnation and the paradox of worth
- The new Hanseatica, now with robot dogs
- L'embarras de richesses, crude oil edition
- Disrupting FREEDOM!
- Productivity polarisation in our 'Modern Times'
- Those incredible dropping repo rates
- Modelling the singularity
- The digital retail economy's Achilles heel
- "You see, money doesn't exist in the 24th century"
- The mainstreaming of technological abundance thinking
- How information technology is shrinking the pie
- About those possible limits to creative destruction...

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