Policy entrepreneur
Under the slogan “You are not a loan, you are not alone,” Occupy Wall Street’s “Strike Debt” group is aiming to inject life into a resistance movement against debt repayment. The operation is gaining worldwide support, and could very well revive the protest movement which was born a year ago. Read more on Global Voices
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My last piece for OuiShare is about how collaborative economy is destroying jobs, and what we can do about it.
» Read moreGiving money to everyone without conditions is often said to be morally hazardous. Sadly though, this argument looks like another symptom of the famous Stockholm syndrom.
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The old “helicopter money” idea of printing money and distributing it to everyone is the obvious solution to avoid another recession. But it will take more than rational arguments to get there.
» Read moreI wrote a piece on Report Out Loud about the History of unconditional basic income, its philosophical and economic justifications, along with the current situation of the idea among civil society and politics. You can read this important post (in French) by clicking here.
» Read moreOn the 14th of September, I will present a paper called “A monetary approach towards a basic income in Greece“, in which I explain and demonstrate how Greece could exit the eurozone and implement a citizen’s monetary dividend. This paper was submitted to the Basic Income Earth Network for its annual congress that wil take place near Munich next week.
» Read moreLibertarians are less altruistic and emotional, more rational and individualistic than other people, a research paper says.
» Read moreOne of the main issue of today’s economic shift of paradigm is that most of the people think like money is always scarce and has to remain so. This way, while the entire World is changing, we are still stuck into the old-fashion straitjacket of our monetary system, based on scarcity.
» Read moreDo you know Götz Werner? In case you don’t, Werner is a very famous entrepreneur in Germany. He founded the drugstore chain dm-drogerie markt, which he led for 35 years. He is also a influent advocate of the unconditional basic income, and most of all a brillant and heterodox thinker.
» Read moreJust a quick update on this blog in order to highlight one very worrisome (and little discussed) fact about the Greek crisis: the plunge of the money supply.
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