Friday 17 d’abril, at six in the afternoon, we present the conference of the economist Daniel Raventós. Again, this is a virtual chat (through the application Zoom) which you can follow from home. After having seen the slope scientific, on this occasion we will deal with the economic aspects of the crisis caused by the coronavirus.
What is and what does the Spanish government's proposal to introduce a minimum living income mean?? What does it have to do with a universal basic income?? Who is it addressed to?? An income for everyone without working? It is a good idea to deal with the post-COVID-19 effects and the risk of an unprecedented social crisis? We find the same debate in other States (also in Luxembourg) and we want to deal with it from the CCL. To do this, we have invited the economist who has worked the most on the issue. Besides, is considered the main expert on basic income in Catalonia and Spain.
If you want to participate, send us an email to our contact address and you will receive the link to follow Professor Raventós' conference.
About the guest:
Daniel Raventós Pañella He holds a doctorate in Economic Sciences and full professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Barcelona. He is also part of the GREECS research group(Research Group in Economic and Social Ethics and Epistemology of the Social Sciences).
He is currently the president of the Basic Income Network, official section of the Basic Income Earth Network (GOOD). He has devoted several works to the basic income and to the republican normative theory. He is also a member of the Scientific Council of ATTAC in Catalonia and Madrid, from various foundations (Nous Horizons and Instituto del Sur, others) as well as from l’International Board of the GOOD and of the’International Advisory Board from the magazineBasic Income Studies.
He has been an invited lecturer at different European and American universities, and is one of the introducers of the basic income proposal. He is one of the founders of the Basic Income Network, l’any 2001. It dedicates a large part of its activity to the public promotion of basic income, as well as the edition and organization of the magazineWithout Permission. Among his works it is necessary to mention the introductory bookThe right to existence (Ariel, 1999) and the studyThe Basic Income of Citizenship: a viable proposal for Catalonia (Mediterranean, 2005), elaborated with other authors. More recently he has editedThe material conditions of freedom, which has also been translated into English by Pluto Press with the titleBasic Income: The Material Conditions of Freedom.
