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<div><b style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Monday, June 19th from 6 PM-8 PM</b><b><br>
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Debating Unconditional Basic Income:
Views from the developing and the developed worlds </b>
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<div>A revival of the idea of basic income is a paramount feature of current times. From
the left to the right, throughout the political spectrum, voices
increasingly converge in claiming that an unconditional basic income would
address major social and structural problems such as today's technological
unemployment and underemployment; extreme poverty; welfare traps and hidden
disincentives to work, freeing human beings from bureaucracy and poor
jobs and enabling them to reach their potential.
In such a polarized world is it possible that basic income may escape ideologies
and end up as a cure-all solution to persistent problems in relation to labor market
flexibility, new forms of entrepreneurialism, and growing concentration of
wealth? Would basic income reinvent work? Or would it reinforce the primacy of
modern finance over our lives by generalizing social policy as a collateral to access
new financial products? </div>
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<div>Round-table (open to the public) </div>
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<div>Opening: Lena Lavinas (WIKO) </div>
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<div>Moderator: Barbara Fritz (LAI - Freie Universität) </div>
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<div>Presenter: Yannick Vanderborght (Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles, Centre de
Recherche en Science Politique (CReSPo & Chaire Hoover - Louvain University).
Co-author, along with Philippe Van Parijs, of Basic Income, a Radical Proposal
for a Free Society and a Sane Economy (Harvard University Press 2017) </div>
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<div>Discussants: Anke Hassel (Hertie School of Governance), Claus Offe (Hertie School of Governance) </div>
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<div><b>Monday, June 19th from 6 PM-8 PM, at WIKO
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Wallotstrasse 19, Large Colloquium Room. Grunewald - Berlin 14193 </b></div>
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