Our music is taken from the song “Pourquoi je pas?”, and is kindly provided by Chocolat Billy, a band based in Bordeaux, France. To find out more about them, visit their pages on BandcampFacebook and the Free Music Archive.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Anna Coote is Principal Fellow at the New Economics Foundation (NEF). An analyst, writer and advocate in the field of social policy, she has written widely on social justice, sustainable development, working time, public health policy, public involvement and democratic dialogue, gender and equality.

Her earlier posts include Director of Health Policy at the King’s Fund, Deputy Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research, Editor of current affairs television at Diverse Productions, and Deputy Editor of the New Statesman.  She was Commissioner for Health with the UK Sustainable Development Commission from 2000 to 2009. 

Further information:
Social Guarantee
New Economics Foundation

EPISODE RESOURCES

Move the debate from Universal Basic Income to Universal Basic Services
by Ian Gough
UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab

Basic Income or Basic Services
by Simon Duffy
Centre for Welfare Reform

Social prosperity for the future: A proposal for Universal Basic Services
by Jonathan Portes, Howard Reed and Andrew Percy
Institute for Global Prosperity

Universal Basic Services: The Right to a Good Life
The Labour Party (UK) 

Capitalism needs a welfare state to survive
The Economist

Martha Nussbaum on the Capabilities Approach to Human Development
Harvard University Press (blog post)

Sen’s Capability Approach
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Capabilities as fundamental entitlements: Sen and social justice
by Martha Nussbaum
Feminist Economics, 9 (2/3)

World Happiness Report 2021
Sustainable Development Solutions Network

What is the care economy and why should we care
by Ito Peng
Care Work and the Economy

Universal Child Care Could Revolutionize the Economy
In These Times

The coronavirus crisis has revealed what Americans need most: Universal basic services
by David Roberts
Vox

Why ‘Universal Basic Services’ is no alternative to Basic Income
by Guy Standing
Open Democracy

Reinvigorating local economies through Universal Basic Services, not income
by Henrietta L. Moore
UCL Institute for Global Prosperity