[URPE] [NYC] February Full Employment Seminar

[Matthew S Winters]

Dear URPE Members:  

We hope that those of you in the New York City area might be ablke to join 
us for the first Columbia University Seminar on Full Employment, Social 
Welfare and Equity in 2005.  We think you will find Professor Harvey's 
talk especially thoughtful and stimulating.  Hope to see you soon.  And 
best wishes for the New Year,  

Helen Ginsburg, Co-chair 
June Zaccone, Co-Chair
Sumner Rosen, Co-Chair

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DATE: Monday 7 February 2004 - 7:15 p.m. - Faculty House, Columbia
  University (Optional buffet dinner at 6:00 p.m.)

SPEAKER: Philip Harvey, Rutgers School of Law--Camden

TOPIC: Income, Work and Freedom

The Universal Declaration of  Human Rights recognizes the right to work and to 
income support.  But nowadays almost no one asks what government can or should 
do to ensure that decent jobs are available for all job seekers.  This goal is 
simply assumed to be beyond the reach of public policy.  So it is hardly 
surprising that many progressives are attracted by the idea of an unconditonal 
basic income guarantee.  In this talk the relative cost and merit of the basic 
income approach is compared  to an equally expansive proposal that would use 
direct job creation to assure employment for anyone who is unable to find 
decent work in the regular job market.

Philip Harvey is an Associate Professor of Law and Economics at Rutgers School 
of Law--Camden and a member of the Advisory Board of the National Jobs for All 
Coalition.  Before joining the Rutgers faculty he was a Visiting Scholar at the 
Russell Sage Foundation and prior to that a practicing attorney in New York 
City.  He has been a visiting professor of law and economics at the Yale School 
of Organization and Management, a visiting professor of law and political 
science at the City College of New York, and a visiting professor of public 
policy at Sarah Lawrence College. He received his B.A. and law degrees from 
Yale University and his Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social 
Research.  He is the author of Securing the Right to Employment (Princeton U. 
Press, 1989), and co-author, with Theodore Marmor and Jerry Mashaw, of 
America's Misunderstood Welfare State (Basic Books, 1990).  He currently is 
working on a book on the trajectory of American social welfare policy which 
will be published by Yale University Press.  A complete C.V. can be found at 
www.philipharvey.info.

A copy of Prof. Harvey's paper is available by request.

Please RSVP to Matt Winters (msw22 at columbia.edu) by Thursday 3 February.

Dinner is at 6:00 p.m. at Faculty House, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.  Enter via the 
gate on the east side of Broadway at 116TH STREET; go through campus and cross 
AMSTERDAM AVE.  Continue on West 116th past the Law School and turn left 
through the gate, turn right beyond Wein Hall on the right and go down the ramp 
to Faculty House.  Purchase a ticket for dinner ($19) at the ticket window on 
the first floor, and then the dinner buffet is in the DeWitt Clinton Dining 
Room on the fourth floor.

The seminar is at 7:15 p.m.  The room will be announced in the Faculty House 
lobby.

Please reply no later than Thursday 3 February.

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Chaired by Helen Lachs Ginsburg, helenginsburg at yahoo.com, Sumner Rosen,
smr6 at columbia.edu, and June Zaccone, ecojmz at hofstra.edu