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 Bandcamp, Facebook and the Free Music Archive.
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
MORE BY ANNA COOTE
The Case for Universal Basic Services
with Andrew Percy
Polity Press
Post-Covid Britain needs a new social guarantee
with Neal Lawson
The Guardian
Universal basic services and sustainable consumption
Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 17:1
The Case for a Four Day Week
with Aidan Harper
Polity Press
The fetishisation of work is making us miserable. Let’s learn to live again
The Guardian
Universal Basic Income: A Union Perspective
Public Services International
Universal basic income doesn’t work. Let’s boost the public realm instead
The Guardian
Building a New Social Commons
New Economics Foundation
Local Early Action: How to Make it Happen
New Economics Foundation
People, Planet Power: Towards a New Social Settlement
New Economics Foundation