Modern Money & Public Purpose 8: Economic Rights
Channel: ModernMoneyNetwork
Date: 09/09/2013

GUARANTEED INCOME OR EMPLOYMENT: 
ECONOMIC RIGHTS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

Speakers:

Pavlina Tcherneva, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics at Bard College & Research Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute

Philip T. Harvey, Ph.D. J.D., Professor of Law and Economics at Rutgers School of Law-Camden. 

Moderator:

Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg, Professor of Social Policy, Adelphi University of Social Work


This seminar focuses on the social, political and economic justifications for securing a legal right to meaningful work and basic material wellbeing, as well as historical examples of direct public employment programs from various nations including the United States, Argentina and India. Questions to be addressed include:

Should individuals have a legal right to work and/or basic material wellbeing?

Can we afford a job or income guarantee?

What would a job or income guarantee look like?

What can we learn from direct employment programs from the past and abroad?

Further reading: http://www.modernmoneynetwork.org/seminar-8-economic-rights.html