Teaching
ETH Zurich Seminar Week: What is Next?
The Basic Income Initiative
Studio Adam Caruso, ETH Zurich
19 October 2020
with Enno Schmidt
With the current pandemic and mass unemployment the topic of basic income is back in discussion. What would you do next if your income were taken care of? In the second talk of the seminar week, the studio invited Enno Schmidt, co-founder of the Basic Income Initiative in Switzerland, to explore how universal basic income would impact the nature of work and our way of life.
Enno Schmidt is artist, author and filmmaker, and founder of the Initiative Basic Income together with the entrepreneur Daniel Häni in 2006. His film “Grundeinkommen – ein Kulturimpuls”, 2008, had an important impact on the debate about basic income. Since 2019 he has been a research assistant at the Götz Werner Chair of Economic Policy and Constitutional Economic Theory at the University of Freiburg (DE) where he is responsible for public awareness with regards to the study of basic income and the development of related financial strategies.
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