{"title":"Football finds alt-finance: can GPE locate leisure?","authors":"Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn","doi":"10.1332/26352257y2024d000000022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/26352257y2024d000000022","url":null,"abstract":"This commentary calls for GPE to reconsider its neglect of leisure. It traces growing overlaps between leisure and digital economies through the case of fintech in men’s elite football, focusing on the growing issuance of blockchain-based digital tokens by clubs and leagues worldwide since 2018. The fan token example is used to illustrate how locating seemingly esoteric developments more widely in digitisation trends politicises leisure activities. It suggests that a focus on infrastructuring and governing in particular may help draw attention to the politics of contemporary transnational activities that blur the boundaries between sectors as well as work/leisure in the digital age.","PeriodicalId":491618,"journal":{"name":"Global Political Economy","volume":"47 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141814851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The efficiency of basic income compared to minimum income schemes","authors":"Julen Bollain, Daniel Raventós","doi":"10.1332/26352257y2023d000000006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/26352257y2023d000000006","url":null,"abstract":"Minimum income schemes were first implemented in the late 1980s. However, as is evidenced, they failed to achieve their objectives of providing everyone with the basics to live in dignity. Partly as a consequence, basic income is considered by an increasing part of both public opinion and academic research a feasible alternative that could guarantee the material existence of all. In this article, in order to observe how a basic income behaves when minimum income schemes fall short, we conduct the first logical and comprehensive scientific contribution to the technical problems preventing minimum income schemes from fulfilling their objectives. This analysis illustrates how a basic income, because of principles of universality, unconditionality and the possibility of combining with other sources of income, is more efficient than minimum income schemes in addressing the aforementioned limitations.","PeriodicalId":491618,"journal":{"name":"Global Political Economy","volume":"31 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139523284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}