Osmo Soininvaara
Finnish politician and writer
- 1987–1991
- 1995–2007
- 2011–2015
14 April 2000 (2000-04-14) – 19 April 2002 (2002-04-19)
Helsinki, Finland
Osmo Heikki Kristian Soininvaara (born 2 September 1951 in Helsinki) is a Finnish politician and writer, former party leader and cabinet member.
Personal life
Soininvaara has a licentiate degree in statistics. Before his political career he worked as a statistician.
Soininvaara is married to Anna-Maria Soininvaara and they have three children: Ohto (born 1990), Ilppo (born 1991), and Helmi (born 1997).
Political life
Soininvaara was elected in Helsinki city council in 1985 and has served in various positions of trust in the city administration since then. He was elected in Eduskunta in 1987 and again in 1995 and was a member of parliament until 2007, when he chose not to stand for re-election. After a break he was elected to the parliament again in 2011, serving until 2015.
He served as Minister of Social Services in Paavo Lipponen's second cabinet between 14 April 2000 and 19 April 2002. He was the leader of the Finnish Green League party from 2001 to 2005.
Basic income proposal
Soininvaara is a long-time advocate of a basic income and has published several books and reports on this topic. In Hyvinvointivaltion eloonjäämisoppi, awarded[by whom?] as the best economics book of 1994, he proposed a detailed basic income scheme differentiated for household composition.[1]
See also
References
- ^ Osmo Soininvaara (1994), "Hyvinvointivaltion eloonjäämisoppi" (A survival doctrine for the welfare state), Juva, WSOY, 298 p, ISBN 951-0-20100-6
External links
- The official website of Osmo Soininvaara
- Is Finland ready for a basic income?. Helsinki Times. Published 17 July 2014.
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Universal basic income topics
- Basic income models
- Citizen's dividend
- Freedom dividend
- Guaranteed minimum income
- Jobless recovery
- Mincome
- Negative income tax
- Real freedom
- Right to an adequate standard of living
- Technological unemployment
- Universal basic income pilots
- Universal inheritance
- Basic Income Alliance
- Basic Income Earth Network
- Basic Income Party
- Breakthrough Party
- Enhet
- Five Star Movement
- Forward Party
- Fusion Party
- Génération.s
- Green Party
- Left Alliance
- LIVRE
- Mein Grundeinkommen
- Party of Humanists
- People Animals Nature
- Pirate Party
- Podemos
- Political Party for Basic Income
- ReCivitas
- Vivant
- Volt Europa
- Agrarian Justice (pamphlet)
- Bullshit Jobs (book)
- Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (monograph)
- The War on Normal People (book)
- Utopia for Realists (book)
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