This interview was conducted by Javier Toro.
Mateo Alaluf is Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is also the author of L'allocation universelle : nouveau label de la précarité.
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.
How are poverty and precariousness combated today? What are the relevant assumptions being made?
From the 19th century until 1945, assistance to the poor was dominant but declined in favour of social insurance. Pauperism referred to mass poverty caused by work. In the early days of industrialisation, assistance consisted of supplementing workers’ starvation wages and providing a meagre income to the poor who could [...]
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Translation:
First of all, good morning.Interesting the opinions of the interviewee, regarding the conception of Universal Income, their approach is didactic, however, to deal with the subject with a global approach, tends to make generalizations that do not characterize some models of Rentas. The subject of income has been the subject of study, from the classics of the Economy such as Ricardo, Smith and Marx, and the Venezuelan case and its rentier dependence have been studied in depth by authors such as Francisco Mieres, Bernard Mommer, Luis Pedro España, but above all, the academic Asdrubal Baptista Troconis. Together with the colleague Cesar Burelli Valero, we have some works (some unpublished) related to the effects of the Rentismo in Venezuela, which could have some utility in the discussion of the subject.
Victor Palacios Vargas
Professor-Investigator
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