Policy Report: Assess one social movement that counters competition or individualism with alternatives?This brief requires the group to select one example of a social movement today (universal basic income, decolonise the economy, ecological degrowth) and assess how it in terms of a Polanyian counter-movement to the various forces of calculation/competition/individualism of neoliberalism.
Notes:
Agreed to read/watch the following before out next meeting:
- Karl Polyani, The Great Transformation (Chapters 1,2,3)
- The Ridley Report 1977
- Youtube videos on UBI: Yanis Varoufakis, Davos meeting, Universal Basic Income - for and against
- Explore the UBI website: http://basicincome.org/news/2015/04/guy-standing-the-growing-precariat-why-we-need-a-universal-basic-income/
We have agreed to organise specific roles of each group member after some preliminary research has been completed. During our next weekly meet up we aim to debate, discuss and explore the readings/videos we have set out to watch. Once we have done this, we will begin to build the caucus for our policy report.
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