Global basic income

Global basic income is an idea whereby people all over the world will be guaranteed a minimum amount of money on a regular basis. That is, an unconditional basic income. This proposal is discussed in the context of the rest of the basic income discussion, for example at the conferences organized by the Basic Income Earth Network and of USBIG. While a national basic income has been discussed for much of the 20th century, the idea of a global basic income is much younger. Recent interest began with the Dutch artist Pieter Kooistra's development of the idea in the 1970s, including his "Uno" plan. From the 1980s, a few more people have started to think seriously about the proposals, and different suggestions on design and financing have been presented, among them monetary reform and "cap and dividend". The Global Basic Income Foundation, founded in 2000, brings together research and debate on the idea.

Individual advocates

Pieter Kooistra

Pieter Kooistra (1922-1998) was a Dutch artist, sculptor and graphic artist who was driven by the vision of making art accessible to all. He also used his creativity to various ideas and projects in the social and economic sphere. In the 1970s, when the images of famine in India spread across the world, he began to develop the idea of a global basic income.

Myron Frankman

Myron Frankman believes that global problems such as global poverty, needs global solutions. Based on this, he advocates a global federal system of active civic engagement from the local to the global scales, a world currency, global taxation, and global public finance.^[1]

Tadashi Okanouchi

According to Okanouchi a global basic income would mean:

• The abolition of wage slavery (or the proletariat as a social class).
• Elimination of the economic basis for patriarchy as well as nationalism.
• Elimination of the economic rationale for pollution.
• Elimination of financially constrained democratic inaction.

The movement for global basic income should therefore, according to Okanouchi, expect criticism from the capitalist class, patriarchal men, bureaucrats and politicians who in various ways are saving on today's systems.^[2]

Further reading

Books

• Pieter Kooistra, Het Ideale Eigenbelang - Een UNO Marshall Plan voor alle your period, Uitgeverij Kok Agora, Kampen, 1993, ISBN 978-90-391-0574-0. 201

Articles

• Frankman, Myron J., "Funding a Planet-Wide Citizen's Income: Trial Calculations," presented at USBIG Conference in New York City, March 8, 2002.
• Frankman, Myron J., World Democratic Federalism: Peace and Justice Invisible, Palgrave-Macmillan: London.
• Frankman, Myron J., "Ample Room at the Top: Financing a Planet-Wide Basic Income," presented at the BIEN Conference in Barcelona 2004
• Frankman, Myron J., "A Planet-Wide Citizen's Income: An Espousal,"
• Heeskens, René, Heskeens 2008 "Earth Dividend and Global Basic Income: A Promising Partnership," '(2008)

External links

• Global Income Foundation

References

1. Planet -Wide Citizen's Income: Espousal and Estimates Published in June 2005)
2. / paper_160_en.pdf Towards Abolition of Wage-Slavery; Perspective to a Non-Violent World Revolution for Guaranteed Global Basic Income Society, Launching from Elimination of Hunger and Poverty (accessed 5 February 2013)