Seminar Series

USBIG organized nine seminars in 2000 and 2001, at which the following topics were discussed.

Seminars:

• June-July 2001 (Friday, July 20th, 5-7pm): Steven Shafarman, author of "Healing Politics: Citizen Policies and the Pursuit of Happiness."
• April-May 2001 (Friday, May 4th, 5-7pm): Michael Lewis, of the SUNY School Of Social Welfare at Stony Brook, will present his paper, "A Critique of Phelps' Welfare Economic Justification of Wage Subsidies."
• March 2001 (Mar. 23): Charles Clark, of St. John's University, "Changing Labour Markets: Towards Real Flexibility."
• January-February 2001 (Jan. 26): Stanley Aronowitz, The City University of New York, "Fundamental Instability and the Growing Concensus for the Basic Income Guarantee." For summary see the Feb-Mar 2001 issue of the USBIG Newsletter.
• December 2000 (Dec. 15): Fred Block, of Swarthmore College and the University of California-Davis, "Basic Income and the Shadow of Speedhamland."
• October-November (Nov. 3), 2000, Brian Steensland, Princeton University, "Defining Welfare: Media Depictions of the Struggle over Guaranteed Income, 1966-1980."
• September, 2000: Karl Widerquist, of The Educational Priorities Panel, "Citizenship or Obligation."
• May, 2000: Robert Harris, "The Guaranteed Income Movement of the 1960s and 1970s."
• January, 2000: Charles M. A. Clark, of St. John's University, "How the Irish Might Save Civilization Again: A Basic Income Proposal for Ireland." For summary see the January 2000 issue of the USBIG newsletter.