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NetFi team coordinator Teodoro Criscione co-authored two papers on community currencies
Both papers are available online:E. S. Mattsson, T. Criscione and W.O. Ruddick, Sarafu Community Inclusion Currency, 2020-2021. Scientific Data 9:426, Nature Publishing Group, 2022. Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01539-4We describe a dataset of...
Basic Income and Sustainability: Perspectives from Constitutional Economics and Cultural Studies (Tandem Lecture)
On July 6, 2022, Bernhard Neumärker, Director of the Götz Werner Chair for Economic Policy and Constitutional Theory and head of FRIBIS, and Sebastian Kaufmann, Research Center "Nietzsche Commentary" of the Heidelberg Academy Of Sciences and Humanities and member of...
02 August 2022: “Permissionless Innovation, Freedom, and Basic Income” by Dr. Otto Lehto
On Tuesday, 02 August 2022, the Basic Income Workshop Series continues with a contribution of Philosopher & former FRIBIS visiting scholar Dr. Otto Lehto: „Permissionless Innovation, Freedom, and Basic Income". He is going to present his input and subsequently...
Establishment of “Basic Income for Nature & Climate”: Interview with the team’s coordinator
The newly founded FRIBIS team Basic Income for Nature and Climate explores the connection between basic income, climate change, and biodiversity conservation. The team’s coordinator, the Indonesian researcher Ni Made Rahayu Maitri, has agreed to be interviewed about...
Lectures by Prof. Bernhard Neumärker on Basic Income in the Climate Crisis
In May 2022, Bernhard Neumärker gave two lectures addressing the potential of basic income in the climate crisis. His May 19 lecture was at the invitation of Students for Future Freiburg and was entitled "Climate Justice and New Ordoliberalism: The Case for Social...
“Is a Penny a Month a Basic Income?” – Best Paper Award for Toru Yamamori from the FRIBIS Team Universal Basic Income & Gender
In his new paper: "Is a Penny a Month a Basic Income? A Historiography of the Concept of a Threshold in Basic Income", Prof. Toru Yamamori examines the definition of Universal Basic Income under the question of a threshold. Based on its basic pillars:...