Sandra Peter and Kai Riemer
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Universal Basic Income with Scott Santens
This week: Universal Basic Income (UBI) trials have taken place all over the world from Namibia to Alaska. We talk with researcher and advocate Scott Santens about the future of the basic income and the impact of the pandemic.
Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week.
Our guest this week
Scott’s book, Let There Be Money
Other stories we bring up
Our previous discussions of universal basic income, including what’s up with UBI, UBI and COVID and lessons from the pandemic
What billionaires think of UBI
Our infographic on the six arguments around UBI
The Australian Parliamentary Library’s 2016 research paper on basic income
Cambridge Econometrics’ 2022 report on the macroeconomics of basic income
The 2013 Oxford paper by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne on the future of jobs and automation
Richard Nixon and basic income
Vox’s world map of everywhere Universal Basic Income has been trialed
The problems of the Alaskan UBI trial
The 1970s Canadian study on basic income support
The Centre for Public Impact’s case study on UBI in Namibia
Rasmus Schjoedt’s 2016 report on the UBI trial in the Indian state Madhya Pradesh
The Chelsea, Massachusetts direct food payments during the pandemic
Why Australia needs a liveable income guarantee in response to COVID
Our previous discussion of private prisons on The Future, This Week
The economic costs of child poverty in the US
The Washington Post Magazine’s 2022 feature on the success of UBI and its hurdles
McKinsey’s review of the Finnish UBI experiment
The surprising results of Finland’s UBI experiment
The Bolsa Família program in Brazil
The UBI proposal from former South Korean presidential candidate, Lee Jae-myung
The Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend
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Dr Sandra Peter is the Director of Sydney Executive Plus at the University of Sydney Business School. Her research and practice focuses on engaging with the future in productive ways, and the impact of emerging technologies on business and society.
Kai Riemer is Professor of Information Technology and Organisation, and Director of Sydney Executive Plus at the University of Sydney Business School. Kai's research interest is in Disruptive Technologies, Enterprise Social Media, Virtual Work, Collaborative Technologies and the Philosophy of Technology.
