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A CITIZEN'S INCOME is an unconditional, non-withdrawable income payable to each individual as a right of citizenship.

The Citizen's Income Trust promotes debate on the feasibility of a citizen's income by running seminars and conferences, publishing a newsletter and other publications, maintaining a library of resources, and responding to requests for information.

 

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Citizen's Income Trust
P.O. Box 26586
London
SE3 7WY

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8305 1222

Fax: +44 (0)20 8305 1802

info@citizensincome.org

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A Citizen's Income for All?

The Citizen's Income Trust's seminar series

The UK is today experiencing one of the worst economic crises of the post-War era. The current economic downturn is likely to affect the wellbeing and opportunities of British citizens for years to come, and will be especially painful for those vulnerable groups and individuals that were already struggling when the economy was booming. In addition, the crisis seriously impedes the capacity of the UK government to address these problems, and many citizens aren't convinced that they're going about it the right way. (Recent proposals for welfare activation in particular are a major cause of concern amongst policy analysts and advocates.) One policy instrument which the Government ought to consider as part of the solution to the crisis is a Citizen's Income, granted unconditionally as a right of citizenship, and this seminar series examines the prospects of instituting a Citizen's Income in the current economic climate.

 

Speakers, dates and venues

 

Tuesday 10 February, 2-4pm - University of Newport, Wales

Dr. Tony Fitzpatrick, University of Nottingham

'Citizen's Income and Paternalism'

Venue: School of Health and Social Sciences, University of Wales, Newport (Lodge Road, Caerleon)

Info and RSVP: gideon.calder@newport.ac.uk

 

Wednesday 4 March, 1.15-3pm - University of York

Professor Bill Jordan, University of Plymouth

'Citizen's Income and the Crash: Credit, Debt and the Citizen's Income'

Venue: Politics Department, Derwent College, Room D013, University of York

Info and RSVP: lh11@york.ac.uk

 

Tuesday 10 March, 5-7 p.m. - University of Nottingham

Dr. Louise Haagh, University of York

'Citizen's Income, Varieties of Capitalism and Occupational Freedom'

Venue: Room B1, Law & Social Sciences Building, University of Nottingham

Info and RSVP: tony.fitzpatrick@nottingham.ac.uk

 

Friday 20 March, 3-5pm - Queen's University Belfast

Dr. Stuart White, University of Oxford

'Basic Income versus Basic Capital: Can We Resolve the Disagreement?'

Venue: Conference Room (20.103), School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast

Info and RSVP: keith.breen@qub.ac.uk

 

This seminar series is organised by the Citizen's Income Trust, in collaboration with the Centre for Social Ethics, University of Newport, Wales; the Department of Politics, University of York; the International Centre for Public and Social Policy, University of Nottingham; and the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast.

For general enuiries email seminars2009@citizensincome.org. For information about specific seminars please contact the respective coordinators.

 

Biographies of Speakers

Tony Fitzpatrick is a Reader at the University of Nottingham. His recent publications include New Theories of Welfare (2005) and Applied Ethics and Social Problems (2008). He is the co-editor of the journal Policy & Politics and was the principal editor of the 3-volume International Encyclopaedia of Social Policy (2006).

Louise Haagh is Lecturer in Politics and Director of the Graduate School at the University of York. She is a world poverty, labour studies and social policy specialist working in the field of comparative labour market institutions, welfare regimes and the political economy of development. She is the author of Citizenship, Labour Markets and Democratization (2002) and co-editor of Social Policy Reform and Market Governance in Latin America (2002). Louise Haagh is associate editor of Basic Income Studies (www.bepress.com/bis) and a member of the executive committee of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), an international network that fosters informed discussion about basic income.

Bill Jordan is Professor of Social Policy at Plymouth and Huddersfield Universities. He studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford, and worked for 20 years in UK social services, as well as teaching social work and social policy. He is the author of 25 books, including most recently Welfare and Well-being: Social Value in Public Policy' (2008) and Social Policy for the 21st Century: New Perspectives, Big Issues (2006), and has held visiting chairs in the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Czech and Slovak Republics and Hungary.

Stuart White is a Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations, where he is also Director of the Public Policy Unit, and a tutor at Jesus College, Oxford University. His research focuses on egalitarianism in theory and practice, with a particular interest in theoretical traditions and policy ideas which are simultaneously anti-capitalist and anti-statist. He is the author of The Civic Minimum (2003) and Equality (2006).


 
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