Seminar Series
USBIG organized nine seminars in 2000 and 2001, at which the following topics were discussed.
Seminars:
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June-July 2001 (Friday, July 20th, 5-7pm): Steven Shafarman, author of
"Healing Politics: Citizen Policies and the Pursuit of Happiness."
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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."
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March 2001 (Mar. 23): Charles Clark, of St. John's University, "Changing
Labour Markets: Towards Real Flexibility."
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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.
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December 2000 (Dec. 15): Fred Block, of Swarthmore College and the University
of California-Davis, "Basic Income and the Shadow
of Speedhamland."
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October-November (Nov. 3), 2000, Brian Steensland, Princeton University,
"Defining Welfare: Media Depictions of the Struggle over Guaranteed Income,
1966-1980."
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September, 2000: Karl Widerquist, of The Educational Priorities Panel,
"Citizenship
or Obligation."
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May, 2000: Robert Harris, "The Guaranteed Income Movement
of the 1960s and 1970s."
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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.