USBIG NewsFlash Volume 16, no. 89, November 2015

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USBIG NewsFlash Volume 16, no. 89, November 2015   NEWS   Read more here » UNITED STATES: Leading economists and business people discuss Basic Income at the World Summit on Technological Unemployment   Read more here » ALASKA: The state’s mini-basic income comes under increasing attack Read more here » UNITED STATES: Detroit activist Grace Lee Boggs dies at 100, she endorsed city-level universal basic income   Read more here » ALASKA: Study Links Permanent Fund Dividend with Increased Birth Weight NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD   Read more here » SWITZERLAND: Parliament rejects basic income initiative, but poll shows popular support   Read more here » SOUTH KOREA: Seongnam City announced to implement ‘Youth Dividend’ Read more here » PORTUGAL: New book from authors André Barata and Renato Miguel do Carmo released Read more here » ITALY: Friuli-Venezia Giulia region introduces a minimum income experiment Read more here » Portugal: First pro-Basic Income congressman gets elected to parliament Read more here » FINLAND: Government Forms Research Team to Design Basic Income Pilots   Read more here » Portugal: Presidency candidate Manuela Gonzaga supports basic income Read more here » NAMIBIA: Basic Income Grant Back on National Agenda   Read more here » PORTUGAL: Paulo Borges runs for President, while defending basic income Read more here » United Kingdom: Opposition’s Economic Adviser Argues for UBI EVENTS   Read more here » SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Political and Technological Strategies towards a post-Scarcity Society   Read more here » SAN FRANCISCO: Universal Basic Income Createathon, November 13-15   Read more here » Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Call for Participation in the 15th North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress, 12-15 May 2016 FROM THE WEB Read more here » Basic Income NYC, “what would you do?” Read more here » Federico Pistono, “As tech threatens jobs, we must test a universal basic income” Read more here » Christine Emba, “Universal basic income: A primer” Read more here » UNITED STATES: U.S. Department of Arts and Culture Sponsors Basic Income Grant Read more here » Roy Bahat, “To support innovation, subsidize creators” Read more here » Tom Streithorst, “A New Golden Age Part III: The Basic Income Guarantee” OPINIONS & REVIEWS   Read more here » Disputing Citizenship, a review Read more here » Basic Income as the Core of the Economy Read more here » Charity is for setbacks, not systematic shortfalls Read more here » My libertarian-socialist working feeling ACADEMIC LITERATURE   Read more here » Robin Jessen, Davud Rostam-Afschar, and Viktor Steiner, “Welche Effekte hätte ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen für Deutschland?” [What effects would a Basic Income have for Germany?] Read more here » Herbert Jauch, “The Rise and Fall of the Basic Income Grant Campaign: Lessons from Namibia” Read more here » David Casassas and Jurgen De Wispelaere “Republicanism and the political economy of democracy.”