Advocate publisher involved with new book on basic income

A new book out of the UK called It’s Basic Income features chapters from basic income experts, writers, and thinkers from around the world, including one by Lindsay Advocate Publisher, Roderick Benns.

Benns co-writes a chapter with Jenna Van Draanen of the Basic Income Canada Network in part five of the Policy Press book, ‘The Year of the Trials,’ a section which illuminates all of the significant basic income trials going on around the world. Their chapter is ‘Growing a Movement: The Canadian Context.’

From the UK publisher’s description:

One of the most talked-about concepts in social welfare of the past few years is basic income, an idea that has rapidly moved from the fringes to the mainstream of political discussion.

This book gathers a number of insightful articles on the idea of a basic income and related issues, bringing in international contributors from a variety of economic and social approaches.

It offers assessments of trials that have been conducted, obstacles to implementation, and possible avenues for political and economic action.

It’s intended to be of use to both policy makers and engaged citizens, with a goal of making basic income both more widely understood and more likely to be adopted as a policy around the globe.

Contributors including musician Brian Eno, prominent academic Peter Beresford OBE, and think tanks such as Demos Helsinki and Y Combinator Research each offer a variety of perspectives from across the globe on the politics and feasibility of basic income.

Sharing research and insights from a variety of nations–including India, Finland, Uganda, Brazil, and Canada – It’s Basic Income provides a comprehensive guide to the impact this innovative idea could have on work, welfare and inequality in the 21st century.

You can purchase the book here.