Date: 24 th July 2024 Time: 11.30am -1.00pm GMT To register click here. The information on zoom link will be shown in the form. Speaker: Annie Miller Topic: Adequacy, poverty benchmarks and a maximum feasible level of BI
ABSTRACT The introduction of the concept of needs into utility theory specifies deprivation, subsistence, sufficiency, and satiation at infinity, together with strong separability. An extended indifference curve map for labor and consumption is created. Both variables are dependent on real wages and endowments of unearned consumption (including cash benefits) and diagrams of their derived demands and Engels curves are created. ‘Survival’ and ‘subsistence’ are key levels of endowments, but how do these relate to ’adequacy’, or to distributions of income and the OECD poverty benchmark? Does ‘adequacy’ imply welfarism. And is there a maximum feasible level of BI?
Open forum on feminist definitions of basic income
co-organised by FRIBIS UBI and Gender team (FRIBIS-UBIG) and by BIEN working group for Clarification of BI definition (BIEN-CBID)
7.30am Eastern Daylight Time (North America) / 12.30pm British Summer Time / 1.30pm Central European Summer Time / 8.30pm Japan Standard Time / 11.30pm New Zealand Standard Time
Facilitators: Chloe Halpenny, Annie Miller, Toru Yamamori, and Almaz Zelleke
Researchers, activists, and community members interested in basic income are invited to this open forum to discuss feminist definitions of basic income.
Background:
Is a penny a month basic income?
Would basic income replace all existing income transfer system?
What might happen to social services if basic income were to be introduced?
Why are some proposals to distribute money to the head of household called basic income, while many others define basic income as individual-based?
Currently there are many proposals made under the name of basic income. The current discourse of basic income has diverse origins. Some are from ivory towers, some are from grassroots social movements such as the Women’s Liberation movement. The difference on the definitions of basic incomes reflects (at least partially) these diverse origins.
It has been a while since this difference of the definitions attracts debates. However, except a few occasions, voices from feminist perspectives have been underrepresented. Here we would like to attempt redressing this situation. In this workshop we would not pursue to reach a particular consensus or direction. It is a place where diverse voices would be raised and heard. All those interested in the discussion are welcome to participate.
Karl Widerquist will present his new article “the Debate Over the Definition of Basic Income,” via zoom in an online open forum of BIEN’s Working Group on the Clarification of the Definition of Basic Income on March 13 in some time zones and March 14 in others: Central Time (US): 13 March, 8-9:30pm Eastern Time (US): 13 March, 9-10:30pm GMT (UK): 14 March, 01:00-2:30am Tokyo Time (Japan): 14 March, 10-11:30am.
A video recording of the debate is now available: “The Debate Over the definition of Basic Income,” presented by Karl Widerquist, hosted by Toru Yamamori for BIEN’s Working Group on the Clarification of the Definition of Basic Income. Annie Miller, Michael Howard, Pierre Madden, and others participate in the discussion. Recorded 8pm 13 March 2024 (Central time – USA). To view the debate, click below.
The Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), at its general assembly in 2019, created the working group for “Clarification of Basic Income Definition”. Since then we have had online open forum including at the online venue of the BIEN congress in 2021 Glasgow and in 2022 Brisbane.
The group hereby makes an open call for contributions to the collective discussion. It expects to have one or two online sessions per month from February to June, 2024. Each online session will run around 90 – 120 minutes, starting with speaker’s presentation(s) with discussions to follow. Each session would host 1 or 2 speakers.
If you are interested in to speak, please show your interest by email both to anniemillerBI@gmail.com and toruyamamori@gmail.com, by 23 February. The group might be able to accommodate later submission, but would appreciate earlier submission.
After the working group and speakers agree the date, speakers are expected to send the group a draft paper for their presentation at least a few weeks before the session.
In July, the working group will prepare making a report on the “Clarification of Basic Income Definition”. Papers presented at open forum may be included in the report.
BIEN working group for Clarification for BI Definition (BIEN CBID) Online Open Forum
Date: 17 July, 9am -10.30am GMT
Speaker: Télémaque Masson-Récipon
Title: “How distinguishing between a ´narrow understanding´ and a ´broad understanding’ of the basic income concept can help contribute to the realisation of both”
Abstract: What is a Basic Income ? What debates surround the way it should be defined ? Why and how do any of these debates matter at all in practice ? This presentation will try to answer these questions and defend a proposal aiming at allowing ubi activism to benefit more directly from these debates. It consist in distinguishing between on the one hand a narrow understanding of UBI as a way to distribute ressources (namely as an equal payment in cash to everyone within a target group on a regular basis without any activity condition) ; and on the other hand a broader understanding of UBI as the aspiration to the universal and unconditional guarantee of the material means of individual autonomy. The adoption of this analytical framework, it will be argued, is likely to greatly improve the focus and efficiency of ubi activism as well as to reopen very fertile fields of UBI research that have been almost entirely neglected over the last two decades.
