The Seventh Congress of the US Basic Income Guarantee Network
March 7-9, 2008: Boston Park Plaza Hotel

Program

Friday, March 7, 2008
8:30am – 9:00am: Morning Coffee
9:00am –10:40am: SESSION ONE OPENING SPEAKERS Michael Lewis, "Welcome and Introduction" Guy Standing, “Occupational Citizenship“ Jurgen De Wispelaere, "BIG Governance?" Moderator: Michael Lewis
10:40am – 11:00am: Coffee Break
11:00am – 12:30pm: SESSION TWO THE ETHICS OF BIG Stephen Nathanson, “The Decent Level Criterion of Justice and Its Competitors” Nir Eyal,  BIG and Redistributing Organs Michael Howard, “Cosmopolitanism and Self-Determination” Moderator: Yannick Vanderborgt
12:30pm – 2:00pm: Lunch
2:00pm – 3:40pm: SESSION THREE THE POLITICS OF BASIC INCOME Al Sheahan, “The Rise and Fall of a Basic Income Guarantee Bill in the U.S. Congress” Steven Shafarman, Peaceful, Positive Revolution: The 2008 Campaign” Richard Wamai, “What is the Case and Feasibility for a Comprehensive Social Welfare System in South Africa?” James Mulvale, “The Guaranteed Adequate Income Debate in Canada:  Challenges and Opportunities“ Moderator: Richard Caputo
3:40pm – 4:00pm: Coffee Break
4:00pm – 5:30pm: SESSION FOUR WORKSHOP:  The Growing Divide:  Inequality and the Roots of Economic Insecurity Steve Schnapp, Senior Education Coordinator, UNITED FOR A FAIR ECONOMY
6:30pm – 8:000pm Eastern Economic Journal Reception All conference participants are invited to attend this reception and meet fellow members and the Association's officers. Cash bar and complimentary snacks.

Saturday, March 8, 2008
8:30am – 9:00am: Morning Coffee
9:00am – 10:40am: SESSION FIVE BIG AND POVERTY Micheál Collins, “New Data, New Targets?  Challenges for Irish Anti-Poverty Policy Post-2008?” Samuel Butler, “Arendt, Solidarity and the Social” Ernie Lightman and Seong Gee Um, “Post-Secondary Education and Social Assistance in Ontario” Moderator: Michael Howard
10:40am-11:00am: Coffee Break
11:00am – 12:30pm: SESSION SIX BIG AND WORK Christian Roy, “Civilian Service for Social Security? Basic Income and Labor Sharing in the Thought of Arnaud Dandieu” Phil Harvey, “Laying out the Argument for a Public Works Program” Jeffrey Smith, “How to Make BI Inflation-Proof, While Also Raising Wages” Moderator: Jeff Smith
12:30pm – 2:00pm: Lunch
2:00pm – 3:40pm: SESSION SEVEN PERSPECTIVES ON DISTRIBUTION AND REDISTRIBUTION Roy Morrison, “Holding the 40% of Lowest Income Households Harmless:  A Negative Income Tax in Combination with an Ecological Value Added Tax” Rabbi Carla Theodore, “End Wage and Profit and Survive” Gary Flomenhoft,  "A 'Public Equity' Corporation Based on Common Assets and Paying Citizen Dividends" Moderator: Eri Noguchi
3:40pm – 4:00pm: Coffee Break
4:00pm – 5:30pm: SESSION EIGHT ROUND TABLE ON FREEDOM AS EFFECTIVE CONTROL SELF-OWNERSHIP Karl Widerquist, University of Reading, "Status Freedom" Robert Jubb, University of Oxford, "Basic Income, Effective Control Self-Ownership, and Market Power" Phil Harvey, Rutgers University Michael Howard, University of Maine Kieran Oberman, University of Oxford Moderator: Almaz Zelleke
5:40pm – 7:00pm: SESSION NINE FEATURED SPEAKERS 5:40pm, Sean Healy and Brigid Reynolds, "Challenges to Basic Income in the Public Policy Arena: An Irish Experience" 6:20pm, Yannick Vanderborght, "Basic Income in Electoral Platforms: Examples from Recent Political History" Moderator: Al Sheahen

Sunday, March 9, 2008
8:30am – 9:00am: Morning Coffee
9:00am – 10:40am: SESSION TEN Theological and Moral Aspects of BIG Stephen Clark, “The Little Red Hen Thinks Again” Buford Farris, “Compassionate Liberalism as a Frame for a Renewed War on Poverty” Charles M. A. Clark, “Promoting Participation in a 21st Century Economy: A Catholic social thought perspective on Basic Income Moderator: Steve Shafarman
10:40am – 11:00am: Coffee Break
11:00am – 12:30pm: SESSION ELEVEN FEATURED SPEAKERS 11:00am, Jurgen De Wispelaere, editor, Basic Inocme Studies 11:10am, Senator Eduardo Suplicy, Brazilian Federal Senate, "A Basic Income to Democratize and Pacify Iraq" 11:50am, Phillippe Van Parijs, Université Catholique du Louvain (Belgium) & Harvard University Moderator: Ingrid Van Niekerk
12:30pm – 2:00pm: Lunch
2:00pm – 3:30pm USBIG ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING Moderator, Karl Widerquist

Last Updated March 3, 2008