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Socle Citoyen | see Citizens Base
Person
Standing, Guy | 09.02.1948, British professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN).
Standing has written widely in the areas of labour economics, labour market policy, unemployment, labour market flexibility, structural adjustment policies and social protection. His recent work has concerned the emerging precariat class (The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class; 2011) and the need to m (...)
Term
success pillar | a figurative tern that helps to describe the role of basic income among all possible income types. By this concept, while the basic income would be a stable and guaranteed "living pillar", the rest that has various amount or is missing at all (i.e salary or business income) could be called as "success pillar".
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Unconditional Basic Income | a basic income with no preconditions, e.g. limits on owning, property, previous contributions to the welfare system, obligation to work (as a volunteer) in return to receive it or prove an activity in research for job
Organisation
Unconditional Basic Income Europe | European network of activists who promote an Unconditional Basic Income.
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Universal Basic Income | universal means that there are no selection criteria (e.g. age, gender, place of residence). In example a citizens wage is not an universal basic income as the recipient should have obtained the citizenship of ones country of residence.
Person
Viik, Guido | 03.03.1968, Enterpreneur and futurist. Among his former job posts after the end of his studies in Tallinn Technical Universitywas the chief executive position in Marat – then a knitwear company with over 1200 employees – and the vice-chancellor position in the Estonian Ministry of Finance. In his articles he have supported the idea of an Unconditional Basic Income, using the term "popular stipendium".
Person
Werner, Götz Wolfgang | 05.02.1944 - 08.02.2022, The founder, co-owner, and member of the advisory board of dm-drogerie markt, a German drugstore chain. He was leading the company for 35 years. Based in Rudolf Steinerʼs teachings of Anthroposophy, Götz Werner was one of the most influential advocates of basic income in Germany since early 1990s
