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.
Ian Gough is Visiting Professor in CASE (Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion) and an Associate of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, both at the London School of Economics. He is also Emeritus Professor at the University if Bath.
His past books include The Political Economy of the Welfare State; A Theory of Human Need; Global Capital, Human Needs and Social Policies; Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America; and Wellbeing in Developing Countries.
His latest book titled Heat, Greed and Human Need: Climate Change, Capitalism and Sustainable Wellbeing, was published in October 2017, preceded by a range of articles in academic journals including the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Royal Society Philosophical Abstracts.
He is now researching a set of related issues, including universal basic services, maximum income, a consumption ceiling, and inessential versus essential work.
Further details:
Personal website
LSE biography
EPISODE RESOURCES
The Case for Universal Basic Services
by Anna Coote and Andrew Percy
Polity
The coronavirus crisis has revealed what Americans need most: Universal basic services
by David Roberts
Vox
Enough for Everyone
by Stan Cox
YES! Magazine
A National Food Service? TfL for taxis? What nationalising the gig economy could look like
by Evie Breese
The Big Issue
Martha Nussbaum on the Capabilities Approach to Human Development by Martha Nussbaum
Harvard University Press (Blog)
Functioning and Capability: The Foundations of Sen’s and Nussbaum’s Development Ethic
by David A. Crocker
in Martha C. Nussbaum and Jonathan Glover (eds.), Women, Culture, and Development: A Study of Human Capabilities
Oxford University Press
Sen’s Capability Approach
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Amartya Sen: Capability and Well‐Being
by Wulf Gaertner
in Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen (eds.), The Quality of Life
Oxford University Press
Facebook and the economics of a public good
by T.C.A. Srinivasa Raghavan
The Hindu Business Line
Regulating Big Tech is not enough. We need platform socialism by James Muldoon
Open Democracy
‘Nationalize’ Facebook and Twitter as public goods
by Vasant Dhar
The Hill
A human rights approach to the mobile internet
by Lisa Horner
Association for Progressive Communications
Deliberative democracy and environmental justice: evaluating the role of citizens’ juries in urban climate governance
by Amy Ross et al.
The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability
Why Restrict Jury Duty to Citizens?
by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
The Atlantic
The wisdom of small crowds: The case for using Citizens’ Juries to shape policy
by Kyle Bozentko et al.
The Brookings Institution
Prefigurative politics and social change: a typology drawing on transition studies
by Anton Törnberg
Journal of Social Theory, 22(1)
Geographies of the future: Prefigurative politics
by Craig Jeffrey and Jane Dyson
Progress in Human Geography, 45(4)
The important questions about universal basic income haven’t been answered yet
by Kelsey Piper
Vox
The pandemic and capitalism’s essential workers: A glimpse into the belly of the beast
by Harry Glasbeek
Canadian Dimension
What COVID-19 Reveals About Twenty-First Century Capitalism: Adversity and Opportunity
by Susan K. Sell
Development
MORE BY IAN GOUGH
Move the debate from Universal Basic Income to Universal Basic Services
UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab
The Case for Universal Basic Services
LSE Public Policy Review, 1(2)
Universal Basic Services: A Theoretical and Moral Framework
Political Quarterly, 90(3)
Heat, Greed and Human Need Climate Change, Capitalism and Sustainable Wellbeing
Edward Elgar
Climate change and sustainable welfare: the centrality of human needs
Cambridge Journal of Economics, 39(5)
Lists and thresholds: comparing the Doyal-Gough theory of human need with Nussbaum’s capabilities approach
in Flavio Comim and Martha C. Nussbaum (eds.), Capabilities, Gender, Equality: Towards Fundamental Entitlements
Cambridge University Press
Understanding Prevention Policy: A theoretical approach
New Economics Foundation.
Global Capital, Human Needs and Social Policies
Palgrave Macmillan
Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America
with Geoff Woods (eds.)
Cambridge University Press
Can the Welfare State Compete? A Comparative Study of Five Advanced Capitalist Countries
with Alfred Pfaller and Göran Therborn (eds.)
Macmillan
Economic Institutions and the Satisfaction of Human Needs
Journal of Economic Issues, 28(1) (Mar., 1994), pp. 25-66
Capitalism and Social Cohesion: Essays on Exclusion and Integration
with Gunnar Olofsson (eds.)
Palgrave Macmillan
Wellbeing in Developing Countries: From Theory to Research
with J. Allister McGregor (eds.)
Cambridge University Press
Economic Institutions and the Satisfaction of Human Needs
Journal of Economic Issues, 28(1)
The Political Economy of Prevention
British Journal of Political Science, 45(2)
A Theory of Human Need
with Len Doyal
Macmillan Press
The Political Economy of the Welfare State
Macmillan Press