Money for everything? Universal basic income in a crisis

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2159889
AutoresMatthew Thompson (0000-0002-5691-4851, Matthew Thompson, Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL, United Kingdom.)
Año2022
Volumen51
Número3
Páginas353-374
Fecha de publicación2022-07-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEconomy and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0308-5147 • E-ISSN: 1469-5766
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03085147.2022.2035930
OpenAlexW4220782393
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas25
Referencias citadas37

This paper explores universal basic income (UBI) in relation to crisis, from COVID-19 to techno-economic disruptions to work and prospective post-capitalist transition. Critical debates around automation, wage labour and post-work are brought into conversation with emerging trends in urban political economy around foundational infrastructure, smart cities and platform capitalism. To deliver the socio-economic transformations promised by UBI's advocates, it is argued that more radical structural interventions in capitalist asset ownership and property relations, alongside democratized state investment in technological development, universal basic services and infrastructure, are necessary counterparts to any sufficient UBI – that is, if we hope to construct new systems of collective coordination capable of contending with complex epidemiological, economic and ecological crises

Basic income · Capitalism · Economic system · Economics · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Work (physics · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law