The Sixth Congress of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network
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| Friday, February 23, 2007 |
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| 8:30am – 9:00am: Morning Coffee |
| 9:00am –10:40am: SESSION ONE OPENING SPEAKERS Michael Lewis, “Welcome and Introduction” Annie Miller, “Basic Income, necessary but not sufficient: some women’s issues” Dalton Conley, “From Guaranteed Income to Guaranteed Assets” Moderator: Michael Lewis |
| 10:40am – 11:00am: Coffee Break |
| 11:00am – 12:30pm: SESSION TWO THE ETHICS OF BIG Almaz Zelleke, "Is 'The Plan' a Basic Income? An Assessment of Charles Murray's Proposal to Replace the Welfare State with an (Almost) Universal Grant" Samuel Butler, “Migrants, Martians and Minimums” Nicolaus Tideman, “Ethical Foundations for Differential Global, National, and Local Income Guarantees” Moderator: Eri Noguchi |
| 12:30pm – 2:00pm: Lunch |
| 2:00pm – 3:40pm: SESSION THREE FINANCE AND THE BASIC INCOME GUARANTEE David Wetzell, “A New Kind of Index Fund Designed to Determine the Holdings of a Public Mutual Fund that would Help Save Social Security” Richard Cook, "The Basic Income Guarantee and Monetary Reform: A Tale of Two Ideas" Stephen Clark, “Transcendental Monetization: The Juarez Plan” Moderator: Steve Shafarman |
| 3:40pm – 4:00pm: Coffee Break |
| 4:00pm – 5:30pm: SESSION FOUR FAMILY, CARE WORK, AND GENDER Christine Todd, “Poverty Reduction and Welfare Provision for Single Parents in Aotearoa/ New Zealand and the United States” Michael Lewis, “Compensation for the Cost of Caring: Wages or a Basic Income” Laura Bambrick, “A BIG Response to Wollstonecraft’s Dilemma” Moderator: Al Sheahen |
| 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, February 24, 2007 |
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| 8:30am – 9:00am: Morning Coffee |
| 9:00am – 12:30am: SESSION FIVE-SIX THE POLITICS OF BASIC INCOME, PARTS I and II Richard Caputo, “The Death Knoll of BIG or BIG by Stealth: A Preliminary Assessment of BIG Political Viability around the Globe” Nadine Schenk, “Political Constraints to Implementing a Basic Income Grant in South Africa” Ingrid Van Niekerk, “Universalism Promotes Development: Evidence from Southern Africa’s Social Transfers” Al Sheahen, “The Rise and Fall of a Basic Income Guarantee bill in the U.S. Congress” Buford Farris, “Happy Workers, Welfare Queens and Surfers: Images in the Debate Around a Guaranteed Income” Steve Shafarman, “A Peaceful, Positive Revolution: The Campaign for a Basic Income” Moderator: Michael Howard (This session has a 20-minute break at 10:40.) |
| 12:30pm – 2:00pm: Lunch |
| 2:00pm – 3:40pm: SESSION SEVEN ECONOMIC ISSUES OF BIG Micheál Collins, “What Level? Insights into the selection of a Basic Income payment level using deprivation data and implicit poverty lines” Sean Healy and Brigid Reynolds, “Making Tax Credits Refundable: A Pathway to Basic Income in Ireland?” Jeffery Smith, “Can a Citizens Dividend Replace Welfare?” Moderator: Kruti Dholakia |
| 3:40pm – 4:00pm: Coffee Break |
| 4:00pm – 5:30pm: SESSION EIGHT ALTERNATIVE ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAMS Jim Bryan, “Wage Subsidies vs. the Basic Income Guarantee: Some Equity and Efficiency Considerations of two Approaches to Aid the Poor” Michael Howard, “A NAFTA Dividend: A proposal for a guaranteed minimum income for North America” Sabrina Quaraishi, “How Empowering Is Microcredit: A Look At Grameen Bank" Moderator: Almaz Zelleke |
| 5:45pm – 7:00pm: SESSION NINE FEATURED SPEAKERS Stanley Aronowitz, the City University of New York Senator Eduardo Suplicy, Brazilian Federal Senate Moderator: Ingrid Van Niekerk |
| 7:00pm – 9:30pm: Reception at the Henry George School |
Last Updated February 20, 2007