----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Munson" <chuck at tao.ca>
Forwarding Dave Graeber:
> The idea of guaranteed income was first developed
> by radical French economists associated with the MAUSS
> group (Mouvement Anti-Utilitariste dans les Sciences Sociales;
> http://www.revuedumauss.com/ , big fans of anthropologist and
theorist
> of the gift Marcel Mauss) and then adopted by Ya Basta!, developed
by
> people like Beppe Cacca.
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Do any Mauss fans know of the dates of the MAUSS group? My research has the first proposal for a GAI back with GDH Cole and Major Douglass and the first programmatic model by Lady Rhys-Williams in 1943. Some claim the Speenhamland system was a first attempt.
Ian