A Basic Income for Everybody?
Publié le jeudi 17 mars 2011
A basic income for everyone, unrelated to social and domestic status, ethnic origin, age or sex, but also and especially, to the nature and the status of possible employed or paid work. This is a real possibility and subject of discussion at a public workshop held by the University of Luxembourg on Friday, 1 April 2011 on Campus Limpertsberg. The highlight of this event will be a roundtable at 4 pm in French with guest lecturers Prof. Philippe Van Parijs from the Catholic University of Louvain, Prof. Tony Atkinson of Nuffield College, Oxford, and Prof. Tito Boeri, Bocconi University, Italy. They will be joined by Serge Allegrezza, general director of the National Statistical Institute STATEC, Robert Kieffer, President of the National Pension Insurance Fund ‘CNAP’, Fréderic Berger, researcher at the Center for Population, Poverty, and Political Studies (CEPS/INSTEAD), Muriel Bouchet, Central Bank of Luxembourg (BCL), and Professor Pierre Picard of the Center for Research in Economic Analysis (CREA), University of Luxembourg. The discussion will be presented by political scientist Jürgen Stoldt. WorkshopThe proposal for a basic income reminds us of the main aims that our modern societies harbor since the Age of Enlightenment: the aim to give people more “real freedom”. However it also puts forward issues of income distribution, labor market participation and, in small countries like Luxembourg, control of migration flows.
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