Abstracts & Papers

Session 1 [Roundtable A]: UBI and Party Politics

• André Silva (PAN), Hugo Mendes (PS), Luísa Álvares(LIVRE), Rita Rato (PCP)

Session 2: Distribution, Pre-Distribution and Basic Income

• David Casassas (University of Barcelona and Red Renta Básica) – Pre-distribution, basic income, and the institutions of a free-choosers society
• Simon Birnbaum (Institute for Future Studies-Stockholm University) and Jurgen De Wispelaere (Independent Social Research Foundation-University of Bath) – The Exit Trap: Is Basic Income an Acceptable Way Out for Republicans?
• José Luis Rey Pérez (University Pontificia Comillas and Red Renta Básica) – Pre-Distribution, Post-distribution, Tax Policy and Basic Income
• Bru Laín (Faculty of Economics, University of Barcelona) – Workfare, Labour Markets, and Distributive Justice. The case of common property and basic income

Session 3: UBI, Gender Justice, Precariat & Automation

• David Chaplin (Northwest Nazarene University) – Universal Basic Income and the blossoming of the “academic precariat” in the United States
• Zuzana Uhde (Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences) – Preconditions of gender equality: Combining universal basic income with a public model of care
• Tyler Prochazka (UBI Taiwan) – Taiwan’s Economic Future: Automation & Basic Income

Session 4: Defining UBI

• Malcolm Torry (Citizen’s Income Trust and London School of Economics) – What’s a Definition? And how should we define “Basic Income”?
• Andrea Fumagalli (Basic Income Network – Italy, University of Pavia) – The correct definition of basic income as primary income: remuneration of life in bio-cognitive capitalism
• Leire Rincón García (University of Barcelona) – Competing Frames in the Basic Income Debate
• Miranda Fleischer (The Univ of San Diego Law School) – Atlas Nods: The Libertarian Case for a Basic Income

Session 5 [Roundtable B]: Participation Income: Avenue or Roadblock to the Basic Income Society?

• Jurgen De Wispelaere (Independent Social Research Foundation/University of Bath), Heikki Hiilamo (University of Helsinki), Kathrin Komp (University of Helsinki), Cristian Pérez (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Lindsay Stirton (University of Sussex), Almaz Zelleke(NYU Shanghai)

Session 6: UBI, Degrowth & Sustainable Food Systems

• Michael W. Howard (University of Maine) – Basic Income and Degrowth
• Elena Ambühl, Nicole Teke and Aurélie Hampel (MFRB – Mouvement Français por un Revenu de Base) – Considering basic income through the lens of agriculture: an innovative food policy measure to support fairer and more sustainable food systems
• Lynn Johnson and Peter Lanius (Nature Needs More, Australia) – Can a Basic Income Stop The Illegal Wildlife Trade?
• Jorge Pinto (Centre for Ethics, Politics & Society, University of Minho) – Green versus Ecological Basic Income

Session 7: The Political Economy of UBI

• Joe Chrisp (Independent Social Research Foundation-University of Bath) and Jurgen De Wispelaere (Independent Social Research Foundation-University of Bath) – Political Economy of Basic Income
• Karl Widerquist (SFS-Qatar / Georgetown University) – The Political Economy of Basic Income Trials
• Stanislas Jourdan (Positive Money)– Can Helicopter Money lead to basic income in Europe?
• Thomas Wells (Tilburg University) – Just Give Money to the Poor: The case for a Global Basic Income

Session 8: UBI and the Welfare State

• Sandra Lima Coelho (CEGE, Católica Porto Business School / IS-FLUP, Universidade do Porto) and Gonçalo Marcelo (CECH, Univ. de Coimbra / Católica Porto Business School) – Universal Basic Income and the Fundamental Tasks of the State
• Jurgen De Wispelaere (University of Bath/Independent Social Research Foundation) and Luke Martinelli (University of Bath/Independent Social Research Foundation) – A New Universalism? Varieties of Basic Income and Welfare State Reform
• Anti Halmetojja (University of Tampere) – The Finnish welfare state and basic income: Is it a match?
• Otto Lehto (King’s College London) – Basic Income as Private Property – But Whose, and Why? The Utilitarian-Libertarian Case for Granting Private Property to All

Session 9 [Roundtable C]: UBI and conditional transfers (in Portuguese)

Gilda Farrell, Carlos Farinha Rodrigues, André Barata, Manuel Carvalho da Silva, Paulo Pedroso

Session 10: Communicating about UBI

• Jenna van Draanen (Basic Income Canada Network / University of California, Los Angeles) – Trends in Basic Income Discussions on Social Media Platforms from 2016-2017
• Lowell Manning (President of Basic Income New Zealand Incorporated) – Strategies of Communication in the Implementation of Basic Income in New Zealand and its Relationship with the Existing Income Support Structure
• Alexander de Roo (BIEN Netherlands) – Campaign to get basic income in the Dutch government program
• Astha Kapoor – Politics, Technology and Basic Income
• Seán Healy (Social Justice Ireland) and Brigid Reynolds (Social Justice Ireland) – The Politics of Basic Income – a case study
• Ric Lim (www.kreytor.org/) – Learning from Human Behaviors and Past Basic Income Experiences

Session 11: UBI, System Dynamics & Efficiency

• Boyd Cohen (EADA Business School / Universitat de Vic) and Xavier Ferras (Universitat de Vic) – From Michael Porter to Jane Jacobs: Reflections on Innovation Ecosystems, Welfare and Basic Income
• Nathan Parker (Rice University, Houston) – Basic Income Against the Competition
• Zhang Chao & Gan Lin (Wenling Middle School of Zhejiang / Zhejiang Wenling High School) – UBIC scheme: design based on the perspectives of global integration and full automation
• Anthony S. Cristiano – Efficiency Aspects of Basic Income

Session 12: Funding UBI

• Julio Linares (National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan) – Funding Basic Income: Finance and the Counter-movement
• Geoff Crocker – Overcoming the Objection of Affordability of Basic Income – A Radical View
• Pablo Fernández del Castillo – Basic Income in complementary currency: Thinking outside the box
• Matthias Fechner (Cusanus University College, Germany) – Liberating minds – economic education as key to an unconditional basic income
• Gaspard Koenig (GenerationLibre), Overview of modelization for France and assessment of the last French presidential campaign

Session 13: UBI and the Digital Economy

• Ville-Veikko Pulkka (University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences) – A Free Lunch with Robots – Can a Basic Income Stabilise the Digital Economy? (contact the author to request a copy)
• Julio Andrade (The Ethics Institute, South Africa) – Implementing a basic income: An income stream through a reconceptualization of data
• Celso Singo Aramaki (Universidade de São Paulo) – UBI Blockchain: a decentralized framework for Universal Basic Income applications
• Charles Shereda – The Modern Talent: An Earth-Backed Democratic Digital Currency System

Session 14: UBI, Peer-Production & Employment & Time Sharing Experiment in Bilbao

• Katarzyna Gajewska (Independent scholar, Strasbourg) – The Future of Work in a Basic Income and Post-Employment System: The Scenario of Peer Production
• João Vasco Gama (Nova University) – Redistributive Impacts of UBI and the UBI Amount
• Leire Rincon  and Angel Elias (UBI Bilbao) – Labour Time Sharing Pilot Project Experience Within Social and Solidary Economy Business

Session 15 [Roundtable D]: UBI from a Corporate Perspective

• João Ricardo Moreira (Administrador empresa cotada), Martim Avillez Figueiredo, Philippe Van Parijs (Hoover Chair, UCL)

Session 16 [Roundtable E]: Keeping Women, Poverty and Welfare Rights at the Heart of a Basic Income Movement

• Felicia Kornbluh (University of Vermont), Brandy Moore (Canadian Singer and Songwriter, Basic Income Women Action group), Ann Withorn (University of Massachusetts, Boston, Professor emeritus), Maria Wong (Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter), Toru Yamamori (Doshisha university, Kyoto), Kaori Katada (Hosei University, Tokyo), Sabine Heissner (Basic Income Women Action Group), Lina Coelho (CES, Univ. of Coimbra & FEUC).

Session 17: UBI in Guatemala & Australia

• Julio Linares, Rodrigo Carbonell and Hugo Rodas (National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan) – Guatemalan Basic Income Sovereign Fund
• Troy Henderson (University of Sydney) – Options for a Basic Income in Australia
• John Tomlinson (Basic Income Guarantee Australia) – When will the BIG wheel turn? Basic Income in Australia

Session 18: UBI, Job guaranteed or Guaranteed Income?

• Benjamin M. Leff (American University Washington College of Law) – Universal Basic Income in the United States: Three Compromise Proposals
• Maciej Szlinder (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) – Basic income versus Job Guarantee. Economic and philosophical analysis
• José A. Noguera (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) – Universal Basic Income or Guaranteed Income? The Political Debate in Spain
• Nathan Parker (Rice University, Houston) – Basic Income Against the Competition

Session 19: UBI, Happiness, Freedom, Exclusion

• Lisa Perrone (Western Sydney University), Margaret H. Vickers (Western Sydney University) and Debra Jackson (Oxford Brookes University) – Introducing Financial Freedom: What It Can Teach Us about Basic Income
• Neil Howard (University of Antwerp) – Basic Income and the Contemporary Anti-Slavery Movement
• Robert Ulmer – Exclusion and threat as a societal intention
• Bastiaan Meinders – Basic Income and the Epistemic Problem of Happiness

Session 20: UBI, Capitalism & Exploitation

• Annamaria Artner (King Sigismund University, Budapest) – Unconditional Basic Income within the framework of capitalism
• Vladimir Simakov – UBI: a Lifeline for Capitalism or an Agent of Disruption?
• Hikmet Gülçin Beken (Gumushane University, Turkey) – Is Basic Income a New Way to Save 21st Century Capitalism or Not?
• Dimitrios Efthymiou (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) – Transnational Exploitation in the EU: A case for combining access to welfare rights with a basic income?

Session 21 [Roundtable F]: Basic Income and Commonfare

• Andrea Fumagalli (BIEN EC & Bin-Italia), Gilda Farrell (Council of Europe), Maurizio Teli (MITI Madeira), Waldir Pimenta (Basic Income-Portugal).

Session 22 [Roundtable G (cont.)]: Keeping Women, Poverty and Welfare Rights at the Heart of a Basic Income Movement

• Felicia Kornbluh (University of Vermont), Brandy Moore(Canadian Singer and Songwriter, Basic Income Women Action group), Ann Withorn (University of Massachusetts, Boston, Professor emeritus), Maria Wong (Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter), Toru Yamamori (Doshisha university, Kyoto), Kaori Katada (Hosei University, Tokyo), Sabine Heissner (Basic Income Women Action Group), Lina Coelho (CES, Univ. of Coimbra & FEUC).

Session 23: UBI, social security and the Welfare state

• Rasmus Schjoedt (Development Pathways, UK) – Pathways to universal basic: the political economy of social security in low- and middle income countries incomes
• Ina Hallström (Stockholm university) – A Feminist and Crip Perspective: Embodying Austerity Politics in the Swedish Welfare State
• Peter Brake – Implementation of Basic Income

Session 24: Ideologies and Politics of UBI

• Almaz Zelleke (NYU Shanghai) – Is Basic Income Capitalist, Socialist, or Something Else?
• Télémaque Masson (EHESS, Paris) – The Politics of Unconditionality
• Liz Fouksman (Harvard University) and Elise Klein (University of Melbourne) – Radical transformation or a technological intervention? Critical engagements in implementing a basic income
• Reimund Acker (Netzwerk Grundeinkommen) – Basic Income and Political Parties in Germany

Session 25: UBI, Democracy and Human Rights

• Leticia Morales (Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata) – The Democratic Case for a Robust Right to Income
• Rados Vidakovic – In What Way does Basic Income Support Democracy? A Revelation of its Mechanism
• Sonja Scherndl (STWR – Share the World’s Resources) – Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Universal Basic Income
• Tadashi Okanouchi (Faculty of Social Sciences, HOSEI University, Tokyo, Japan) – Global Basic Income or Human Heritage Dividend

Session 26: UBI in Brazil

• Eduardo Suplicy (BIEN Co-President of Honor) – [Title TBC]
• Leandro Teodoro Ferreira (Federal University of ABC, Brazil) – From Bolsa Família to Basic Income
• Maria Ozanira da Silva e Silva (Universidade Federal do Maranhão) and Valéria Ferreira Santos de Almada Lima (Universidade Federal do Maranhão) – The Political and Economic Conjuncture in Brazil Post Lula’s and Dilma’s Governments: a step back in the direction of implantation of a Basic Income in Brazil
• Thiago Santos Rocha (Faculdade de Direito, Universidade de Lisboa) – Basic income of citizenship in Brazil: the difference between establishing and implementing it

Session 27 [Roundtable H]: UBI, The Future of the Welfare State and the Left

• Zé Neves, Francisco Guerreiro, Daniel Oliveira, Manuel Carvalho da Silva.

Session 28: Pilot projects in Mexico City, Korea, Finland & Germany

• Pablo Yanez – Mexico City’s Constitution: a step forward towards basic income
• Jaeseop Kim (Tio Su-ki project, Deajeon, Korea) – Basic income pilot project by Korean youth : imagine another world
• Jurgen De Wispelaere (University of Bath/Independent Social Research Foundation), Johanna Perkiö (University of Tampere), Lindsay Stirton (University of Sussex), Navajyoti Samanta (University of Sheffield) – Modelling Policy Attention and Political Support for Basic Income in Finland, 1979-2016
• Christian Lichtenberg and Katarina Huth (Mein Grundeinkommen) – Introduction to  “My basic income” experiment in Germany

Session 29: UBI & Poverty

• Laura Bannister and Paul Harnett (World Basic Income) – Basic income beyond borders: How a worldwide basic income could tackle global inequality and end extreme poverty
• Annie Miller – A New Poverty Benchmark For Basic Income Schemes
• Sandra Miller (Democracy Earth Foundation) – Solving Basic Income’s Most Intractable Problem of Secure Distribution

Session 30: UBI and the Future of Work

• Anikó Vida (University of Szeged) – With or Without Work? The dilemmas surrounding basic income from the perspective of full citizenship
• Leen Scholiers (SMart Cooperative) – The Future of Work and Technological Unemployment
• Jean-Philippe Martin – Mitigating technological unemployment through shared work
• Helen Blakeman – Utopia of the Zero Hour Contract

Session 31:

UBI, Work & Dignity

• György Palffy  (Hungarian Unconditional Basic Income Association) – Freedom or Slavery Through Work?
• Eugenio R. Borrallo (Podemos) – Basic income as a tool to dignify the work of landless peasants
• André Gal Mountain (Universidade de São Paulo) – I, Daniel Blake and Basic Income
• Matheus Gama Correia (Federal Prosecutor in Brazilian Labour Law) – Universal Basic Income: an alternative to the submission of the individual to subordinate work

Session 32: UBIE Workshop

Session 33 [Film Projection]:

• Rena Masuyama (Japan) will show her film about Universal Basic Income

Session 34

• Workshop for Addressing Issues Facing Basic Income Networks Around the World

Session 35: RBI, Pobreza e Trabalho no Brasil [In Portuguese]

• Marcela Ribeiro de Albuquerque (UENP, Brasil), Rogério Mendonça Martins (UENP, Brasil) – Políticas Governamentais de Inclusão Produtiva para a Redução da Pobreza no Brasil
• Thaís Amanda Silvestre (UENP, Brasil), Carla Maria Freres Stipp (UEL, Brasil), e Marcela Ribeiro de Albuquerque [GM7] (UENP, Brasil) – Aspectos do Processo de Terceirização no Direito Trabalhista Brasileiro: Precarização de Direitos Fundamentais
• Marcelo Lessa (CEO Lessa Consultoria) – Um passo à frente: Ferramenta econômica acelerando a transformação social

Session 36: Implementing a UBI

• Bonno Pel (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and Julia Backhaus (Maastricht University) – Realizing Basic Income: shifting claims to expertise in Basic Income advocacy
• Marek Hrubec (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) – Implementation of Basic Income within Models of Economic Democracy
• Jesus Salgado (Basic Income Observatory – ATTAC Madrid) – Sub-basic Income as a First Step towards UBI?

Session 37: UBI and its Effects on Work

• Boyd Cohen (EADA Business School, Barcelona), Steffen Farny (Aalto University, Helsinki) and Rachida Justo (IE Business School) – More Lazy or More Entrepreneurial? Projecting Citizen Reactions to a Basic Income
• Gunmin Yi (Seoul National University) – The Effects of Basic Income on Labour Supply
• George Bangham (Barcelona GSE) – Universal Basic Income and work incentives: why it matters that government cannot credibly commit to a UBI ad infinitum
• Ana Helena Cavalcante (University of Freiburg) and Bernhard Neumärker (University of Freiburg) – The Microeconomic Effects of UBI on Time Allocation