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'Money for everything? Universal basic income in a crisis'.

This paper explores universal basic income (#UBI) in relation to crisis, from #COVID19 to techno-economic disruptions to work and prospective post-capitalist transition.

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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 on the promise of UBI, it's argued that more radical structural interventions in capitalist asset ownership & property relations, alongside democratized state investment in technological development, UBI & infrastructure, are necessary counterparts to a sufficient UBI.
That is, more radical structural interventions are necessary if we hope to construct new systems of collective coordination capable of contending with complex epidemiological, economic and ecological crises.

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