BIG Congress at the EEA annual meeting
The Twelfth Annual North American Basic Income Guarantee (NABIG) Congress begins today, Thursday, May 9, 2013 at the Sheraton New York Hotel. The NABIG Conference is a joint conference of the USBIG Network (www.usbig.net) and BIEN-Canada. It is being held as a sub-section of the annual meeting of the Eastern Economic Association (EEA).
The conference includes 40 speakers from around the U.S. and Canada and from around the world. Featured speakers include
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Sheri Berman, Barnard College, author of The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe’s Twentieth Century
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Jurgen De Wispelaere, McGill University, co-editor of The Ethics of Stakeholding.
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David Casassas, University of Barcelona, co-editor of Basic Income in the Age of Great Inequalities
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James Riccio, MDRC, co-author of “Toward Reduced Poverty Across Generations: Early Findings from New York City’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program”
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Darrick Hamilton, The New School, co-author of “Can ‘Baby Bonds’ Eliminate the Racial Wealth Gap in Putative Post-Racial America?”
For more information go to the USBIG website: https://www.usbig.net or the EEA website: https://www.ramapo.edu/eea/2013-2/.
Will there be any videos of these sessions?
Unfortunately, most sessions were not recorded, and I’m not sure what happened to the recordings that were taken. However, many of the papers associated with the presentations are or will be online at http://www.usbig.net.