Universal Basic Income: A Precarisation Scheme

INTERVIEW

JULY/AUGUST 2018

POVERTY

VOL. 2, NO. 4, PGS. 1–8

A conversation with Mateo Alaluf

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.

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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 not work. Then gradually the adoption of the first social laws was observed.

From 1945 to 1980 there was a decline in welfare and an expansion of the social state. Social security dominates and social assistance is seen as residual. It is now a matter of progressively replacing charity and assistance with solidarity and social rights.

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El Orituqueño

02/07/2018

Ante todo, buenos días.
Son interesantes las opiniones del entrevistado, relativas a la concepción de Renta Universal, su enfoque es didáctico, sin embargo, por tratar la temática con un enfoque global, tiende a realizar generalizaciones que no caracterizan algunos modelos de Rentas. El tema de la renta, ha sido objeto de estudio, desde los clásicos de la Economía como Ricardo, Smith y Marx y, el caso venezolano y su dependencia rentista lo han estudiado en profundidad autores como Francisco Mieres, Bernard Mommer, Luis Pedro España, pero sobre todo, el académico Asdrúbal Baptista Troconis. Conjuntamente con el colega César Burelli Valero, nosotros tenemos algunos trabajos (algunos inéditos)relacionados con los efectos del Rentismo en Venezuela, los cuales podrían tener alguna utilidad en la discusión del tema.

Víctor Palacios Vargas
Profesor-Investigador
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