Universal Capital Grants and Social Justice
“A Modest Proposal? Basic Capital versus Higher Education Subsidies”
Tuesday, September 29, 4pm, 206 Ingraham
“Basic Income versus Basic Capital: Can we Resolve the Disagreement?”
Wednesday, September 30, 4pm, 206 Ingraham
Open seminar for students, faculty and the public
Thursday, October 1, 12:20pm, 8108 Social Science
STUART WHITE is a lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations, and a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University. His research interests lie in egalitarian political theory and its application to public policy. He is the author of The Civic Minimum (2003) and Equality (2006) and recently co-edited Building a Citizen Society (2008). Other recent publications include the co-authored pamphlet, How to Defend Inheritance Tax (2008). He obtained his Ph.D from Princeton University (1995) and was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at M.I.T. (1997-1999) before taking up his current job at Oxford. He blogs regularly at Next Left (www.nextleft.org)
Readings:
Ackerman, Bruce and Anne Alstott. “Citizen Stakeholding” Chapter 2 in The Stakeholder Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999 (pdf)
Ackerman, Bruce and Anne Alstott. “The Stake in Context” Chapter 3 in The Stakeholder Society, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999 (pdf)
White, Stuart. “Basic Income vs. Basic Capital: Can We Resolve the Disagreement?” Working Paper, Sept. 2009
Ackerman, Bruce, Anne Alstott and Philippe Van Parijs, “Macro Freedom”, Ch. 11 in Redesigning Distribution, New York: Verso, 2006