USBIG-EEA Conference 2002, February 21 – 23, 2003

All events in room 509/510 except where indicated

 
Friday Feb. 21
Saturday Feb. 22
Sunday Feb. 23
8:00am
Morning Coffee: Act III and IV Ballroom.
Registration Begins, Ballroom Foyer
Morning Coffee: Act III and IV Ballroom.
Registration Begins, Ballroom Foyer
Morning Coffee: Act III and IV Ballroom.
Registration Begins, Ballroom Foyer
8:30am
Welcome and Introduction: USBIG Committee
900- 10:40am
SESSION ONE: Panel Discussion: Job guarantees vs. income guarantees
Chair: Joel Handler
Joel Handler, UCLA, “Social Citizenship and Workfare in the U.S. and Western Europe: From Status to Contract”
Amy Wax, University of Pennsylvania “The Political Psychology of Social Security: – Obstacles to Reform” 
Phil Harvey, Rutgers, "The Right to Work and Basic Income Guarantees: A Comparative Assessment"
Charles M.A. Clark, St. John’s University
SESSION FIVE: The Ethics of Unconditional Income 2
Chair: Michael Howard
Karl Widerquist, Oxford University, UK “The Stakeholder Account System”
Karl Widerquist, Oxford University, UK, “Who Exploits Who?”
Andrea Fumagalli, University of Pavia, Italy, “Bioeconomics, Cognitive Work and Labor Flexibility: the Unequal Exchange”
Discussants: Hilary Silver, José Luis Rey Pérez, Allan Sheahen
SESSION NINE: The Ethics of Unconditional Income 3
Chair: Michael Howard
Almaz Zelleke, Independent Scholar, Brooklyn, NY, “Distributive Justice and the Argument for Basic Income”
Allan Sheahen, Author, Van Nuys, CA, “Does Everyone Have the Right to a Basic Income Guarantee?”
José Luis Rey Pérez, Universidad Pontificia Comillas of Madrid, Spain, "Can we argue for a human right to Basic Income?"
Discussants: Harry F. Dahms, Bradley Nelson, Michael Howard
10:40- 11:00am
Coffee Break: Act III and IV Ballroom
Coffee Break: Act III and IV Ballroom
Coffee Break: Act III and IV Ballroom
11:00am- 12:30pm
SESSION TWO: The Ethics of Unconditional Income 1
Chair: Michael Howard
Michael Lewis, Stony Brook University, “Perhaps there can be too much freedom”
Hilary Silver, Brown University, “Social Exclusion and Basic Income”
Harry F. Dahms, Florida State University, "Breaking the Glass Barrier: How Basic Income is a Qualitatively Different Social Policy Paradigm"
Discussants: Almaz Zelleke, Michael Howard, Andrea Fumagalli
SESSION SIX: The South African Basic Income Grant Proposal
Chair: Almaz Zelleke
James Thurlow, International Food Research Institute, Washington, DC “Can South Africa Afford to Become Africa's First Welfare State?”
Michael Samson, and Ingrid van Niekerk, Economic Policy Research Institute, South Africa, “Social Security Reform and the Basic Income Grant for South Africa”
Eva Harman, University of Chicago, “Social Grants and their Social Circulations”
Discussants: Manuel Henriques, Lenardo Fernando Cruz Basso, Theresa Funicello
SESSION TEN: An “Open Space” Discussion on the Basic Income Guarantee.
Hosted by Steve Shafarman, The Citizen Policies Institute, 
12:30- 1:00pm
Lunch
Lunch
1:00 – 2:30PM
USBIG business meeting, Moderator, Karl Widerquist
2:00-
3:40pm
SESSION THREE: Economics vs. poverty: The Basic Income Guarantee
Chair: Michael Lewis
James B. Bryan, Manhattanville College, “Targeted Programs v. The Basic Income Guarantee: An Examination of the Efficiency Costs of Funding Different Forms of Redistribution”
Thierry Laurent, and (coauthored by Yannick l’Horty), University Paris-Evry, France “Basic Income/Minimum Wage Schedule and the Occurrence of Inactivity Traps: Some Evidence on the French Labor Market”
Manuel Henriques, Universidade Lusófona, Portugal, “The Guaranteed Minimum Income Schemes in the European Union, the Crisis in the European Social Policy Model and the Lessons from the USA”
Discussants: Eri Noguchi, Michael Lewis, Karl Widerquist
SESSION SEVEN: Lessons from political movements for Income Security
Chair: Eri Noguchi
Leland Gerson Neuberg, Boston University, “What Defeated a Negative Income Tax? Constructing a Causal Explanation of a Politically Controversial Historical Event”
Steven Shafarman, Citizen Policies Institute, “Mobilizing Support for Basic Income”
Theresa Funicello, Social Agenda, “Getting on a path to just distribution: The Caregiver Credit Campaign”
Discussants: Michael Samson, Jeffery Smith, Ingrid van Niekerk 
Conference ends at 2:30PM, Sunday
3:40- 4:00pm
Coffee Break: Act III and IV Ballroom
Coffee Break: Act III and IV Ballroom
  
4:00- 5:30pm
SESSION FOUR: Changing economic structure and changing needs for social insurance
Chair: Allan Sheahen
Leonardo Fernando Cruz Basso, Brazil, “Meritorious currency: a currency against famine”
Stephen C. Clark, California, “The Basic Income Guarantee as the Foundation of a Sound Currency and a Free and open Market”
Steven Shafarman, Citizen Policies Institute, “Globalization and Anti-Globalization: Is Basic Income the Answer?”
Jason Murphy, (coauthor John Buerck) Saint Louis University, “Thinking Machines, Automated Administration, Citizen Participation, and a Guaranteed Income”
Discussants: Buford Farris, Leland Neuberg, Karl Widerquist, James Thurlow
SESSION EIGHT: The Basic Income Guarantee as a part of a larger social system
Chair: Steve Shafarman
Jeffery Smith, Geonomy Society, “Predistribution”
Buford Farris, Saint Louis University, “A Real War on Poverty: Guaranteed Income Plus”

Leland Gerson Neuberg, Boston University, “Beyond Basic Incomes and Stakes: Toward the Ideals of Socialism without Public Ownership of the Means of Production”
Discussants: Eva Harman, James B. Bryan, Jason Murphy, Stephen C. Clark

  
5:30- 6:30PM
EEA Presidential Address Ballroom II
Edward Wolff, of New York University, who spoke at USBIG last year, discusses "The Devolution of the American Pension System"
USBIG Keynote Address:
Eduardo Suplicy, member of the Brazilian Senate, discusses “Lula’s Zero-Hunger Program and the Trend Toward a Basic Income in Brazil.”
  
6:30- 8:00PM
EEA Presidential Reception: Balcony Café, complimentary snacks and cash bar
Eastern Economic Journal Reception: Balcony Café, complimentary snacks and cash bar