On June 5, a national referendum will be held on whether an amendment should be made to the Swiss Constitution, committing governments to moving towards realisation of a basic income for every citizen. It does not state what amount should be provided. That was the correct approach, because that should be decided democratically and separately.
The Precariat: why it needs deliberative democracy
We are at the crisis point in global transformation analogous to Karl Polanyi’s account of the impact of the rise of the market economy in England in The Great Transformation. The neo-liberalism that drove the disembedded phase known as «globalisation» sought to create a global market society in which commodification was extended into every feasible
