The Twelfth Annual North American Basic
Income Congress, Basic Income and
Economic Citizenship, will take place in New York City on Thursday, May 9th
through Saturday, May 11th, 2013. The congress is organized by the U.S. Basic
Income Guarantee Network (USBIG) in cooperation with the Basic Income Canada
Network (BICN/RCRG), and will be held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of
the Eastern Economic Association (EEA). Attendees at the North American Basic
Income Congress are welcome to attend any of the EEA’s events.
The North American Basic Income
Congress (NABIG Congress) was originally the USBIG Congress, and was organized
by the USBIG Network. It became a joint event of the USBIG Network and
BICN/RCRG in 2010. Since then, it has been a NABIG Congress held on alternate
years in the United States and Canada. Previous NABIG congresses have been held
in Montréal, Toronto, Boston, Washington, Philadelphia, and New York City.
Sheri Berman, Barnard College, author of The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy
and the Making of Europe’s Twentieth Century
Jurgen De Wispelaere, McGill
University, co-editor of The Ethics of
Stakeholding.
David Casassas, University of Barcelona, co-editor of Basic Income in the Age of Great Inequalities
James Riccio, MDRC, co-author of "Toward Reduced Poverty Across Generations: Early Findings from New York City's Conditional Cash Transfer Program"
Darrick Hamilton, The New School, co-author of "Can 'Baby Bonds' Eliminate the Racial Wealth Gap in Putative Post-Racial America?"
View the Congress program (final) here.
DEADLINE FOR PAPER PROPOSALS HAS PASSED.
REGISTRATION:
Attendees and presenters at the
NABIG conference must register with EEA. USBIG participants, who are not economists,
can register for $95, a discount of $60 off the regular price of $155. NA-BIG
who are economists should become full members of the EEA and pay the full
price. The EEA has set up a special online payment system.
For economists: http://eeaorg.myshopify.com/products/usbig-registration-academic
For non-economists:
http://eeaorg.myshopify.com/products/usbig-registration-non-academic
MORE INFORMATION:
For updated information on featured speakers, registration, and accommodations as it becomes available, visit the USBIG website at www.usbig.net. For more information about the EEA Annual Meeting, visit the EEA website at http://www.ramapo.edu/eea/2013/.
The conference took place in Ottobrunn (Munich), Germany on September 14 to 16, 2012.
More than 150 participants attended, including Philippe Van Parijs, Götz W. Werner, Claus Offe, Min Geum, Renana Jhabvala, Baptiste Mylondo, Ingrid van Niekerk, Guy Standing, Tereza Helena Gabrielli Barreto Campello, and many others.
Papers will be available through the BIEN website:
http://www.basicincome.org/bien/
Segal, Hugh, “Why Guaranteeing the Poor an Income Will Save Us All In the End”
May 18 2013
This op-ed piece calls for basic income as a new approach to poverty and an alternative to austerity. It is written by Senator Hugh Segal of the Conservative Party (Canada). Segal, Hugh, “Why [more]
Raventos, Daniel and Julie Wark, “A republican call for a basic income”
May 17 2013
OurKingdom: Power & Liberty in Britain, “Democratic Wealth,” 15 May 2013 This piece discusses BIG from a republican prespective—that is from the two-millennia old political movement with [more]
The basic income guarantee (BIG) is a government insured guarantee that no citizen's income will fall below some minimal level for any reason. All citizens would receive a BIG without means test or work requirement. BIG is an efficient and effective solution to poverty that preserves individual autonomy and work incentives while simplifying government social policy. Some researchers estimate that a small BIG, sufficient to cut the poverty rate in half could be financed without an increase in taxes by redirecting funds from spending programs and tax deductions aimed at maintaining incomes. Click here for more information.
The U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network (The USBIG Network) is an informal group promoting the discussion of the basic income guarantee in the United States. USBIG (pronounced "U.S big") publishes an email newsletter (subscription 500) every two months, maintains an on-line discussion paper series, and has yearly conferences.
USBIG was founded in December 1999 by Fred Block of University of California-Davis, Charles M. A. Clark of St. John's University, Pamela Donovan of the City University of New York, Michael Lewis of the State University of New York-Stony Brook, and Karl Widerquist then of the Levy Economics Institute. The USBIG Coordinating Committee has nine members: Michael Howard of the University of Maine (Coordinator); Karl Widerquist, now of Georgetown University, Qatar (Newsletter Editor); Al Sheahen, author (Public Relations Coordinator, alsheahen@prodigy.net); Steve Shafarman, author (Activist Coordinator, steve@IncomeSecurityForAll.org); Michael Lewis, Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College; Eri Noguchi of Columbia University; and Almaz Zelleke, BIEN Executive Committee, azelleke@gmail.com; Dan O'Sullivan of Rise Up Economics danosully@gmail.com; Jason Murphy murphyjb@slu.edu ; Jeff Smith, Forum on Geonomics, jjs@geonomics.org. Click here for more information, or email (michael.howard@umit.maine.edu).
Last updated - 07.05.2013-17:01