KARL WIDERQUIST CURRICULUM
VITAE
Lecturer in Politics
The School of Sociology, Politics, and
International Relations
The University of Reading
Reading, UK, RG6 6AA
Telephone: (+44)(0)7748 963517
U.S. Telephone: (+1) 269-445-8398
Email: Karl@Widerquist.com
Website: www.widerquist.com/karl
Education
DPhil (PhD) in Politics, the University of Oxford, Lady
Margaret Hall, Oxford, UK, August 2006
• Fields of Study:
Analytical Political Theory, Distributive Justice
• Dissertation:
“Property and the Power to Say No: A freedom-based argument for basic income”
PhD in Economics, the City University of New York,
New York, NY, 1996
• Fields of Study:
International Trade, Human Resources, and Public Choice
• Dissertation: “A
Voting Paradox and the Budget Deficit”
BA in Economics, the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, MI, 1987
Employment History
Lecturer in Politics The School of Sociology, Politics, and International Relations, The
University of Reading, UK, September 2007–June 2008
• Courses: Modern Politics (including British and American government
and theory of democracy); Political Thinking (modern political theory); Political
Classics (political philosophy from Plato to Rousseau)
Faculty Fellow,
The Murphy Institute, Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, Tulane
University, September 2006–July 2007
• Fulltime academic
researcher
Teacher, The Oxford Tradition, Pembroke College, Oxford
University, July 2006
• Course: Politics and Economics, major and minor sections
Tutor, Oxford University, 2004–2006
• Colleges: Corpus Christi,
Magdalen, Wadham, and Hertford
• Courses: Political Theory (three times), Classical Political
Thought (once), and Foundations of Modern Social and Political Thought (once)
Staff Economist, Educational Priorities Panel, 225
Broadway, Suite 3101, New York, NY 10007, August 2000–June 2002
• Researcher working on
issues of the public education budget in New York State
Hoover Fellow in economic and social
ethics, Chair Hoover
d’éthique économique et sociale, Université catholique de Louvain, 3 place
Montesqueieu, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium February–August, 2001
• Visiting research fellow,
fulltime academic researcher
Resident Research Associate, The Levy Economics Institute of Bard
College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, June 1997–August 2000
• Economic researcher,
writer and editor
Adjunct Lecturer, New York University, 1994–1997
• Courses: Intermediate Microeconomics,
Poverty & Income Distribution, International Trade, Principles of
Microeconomics, History of Economic Thought
Adjunct Lecturer, Staten Island College, 1994,
1996–1997
• Courses: Business Statistics,
Intermediate Microeconomics, Introduction to Economics
Adjunct Lecturer, Hunter College, 1992–1995
• Courses: Intermediate Microeconomics,
Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics, Introduction to
Economics
Research Assistant, National Bureau of Economic Research,
New York, NY, 1990–1992
Substitute Teacher, Lewis Cass Intermediate School District,
Cassopolis, MI, 1989–1990
Substitute Teacher, Diablo Valley Unified School District,
1989, Concord, CA
Bond Trading Assistant, The Iowa Grain Company, Board of
Trade, Chicago, IL, 1987–1988
Publications and Presentations
Books
1. The Ethics and Economics of the Basic
Income Guarantee, with
Michael Anthony Lewis and Steven Pressman (eds.), Aldershot, UK: Ashgate 2005
• Collected
volume of essays from the First USBIG Congress
2. Economics for Social Workers: The
Application of Economic Theory to Social Policy and the Human Services, with Michael Anthony Lewis, New York:
Columbia University Press, 2002
• Textbook
for the social policy class required by most masters programs in social work
Current project: co-editor, The Blackwell Anthology of
Basic Income, Oxford, UK: Blackwell
• Anthology
of articles on basic income expected to be released in 2008
Scholarly Articles and Book Chapters
* Indicates peer review, total 11
3. * “A Dilemma for Libertarianism,” Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (forthcoming)
4. “The Basic Income Guarantee and the goals
of equality, efficiency, and environmentalism” with Michael Lewis in Environment and Employment: A Reconciliation,
Philip Lawn (Ed.) London: Routledge (forthcoming)
5. * “Libertarianism” in the International
Encyclopedia of Public Policy, Volume 3, Phil O’Hara (Ed.) Oxford: Oxford
University Press (forthcoming)
6. * “The Bottom Line in a Basic Income
Experiment” Basic Income Studies 1 No. 2, December 2006
7. * “Who Exploits Who?” Political Studies 54, No.
3, October 2006, pp. 444-464
8. “Launching a Basic Income Journal” Basic Income Studies 1, No. 1, Summer
2006
9. * “An Efficiency Argument for the Basic
Income Guarantee,” with Michael A. Lewis International Journal of
Environment, Workplace and Employment 2, No. 1, 2006, pp. 21-43
10.
“Discussion”
Time for Land Value Tax? Dominic
Maxwell and Anthony Vigor (eds.) London: Institute for Public Policy Research,
2005
11. “Introduction to the Symposium on the
Basic Income Guarantee,” with Michael Lewis and Steven Pressman, The Review
of Social Economy 63, No. 4, December 2005. Revised version
published as “An introduction to the Basic Income Guarantee” in The Ethics
and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee, Widerquist, Lewis, Pressman
(eds.), Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005
12.
“A
Retrospective on the Negative Income Tax Experiments: Looking Back at the Most
Innovative Field Studies in Social Policy,” with Robert Levine, Harold Watts,
Robinson Hollister, Walter Williams, and Alice O’Connor, in The Ethics and
Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee, Widerquist, Lewis, Pressman
(eds.), Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005
13. “Does She Exploit or Doesn’t She?” in
The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee, Lewis, Pressman, and Widerquist (eds.), Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2005
14. * “A Failure to Communicate: What (If Anything)
Can we Learn from the Negative Income Tax Experiments?” the Journal of
Socio-Economics 34 No. 1,
2005, pp. 49–81
15.
“Introduction,”
The Journal of Socio-Economics 34,
2005, pp. 1–2
16. “The Labour Market Findings of the
Negative Income Tax Experiments and Their Effects on Policy and Public Opinion,”
in Promoting Income Security as a Right:
Europe and North America, G. Standing (ed.), London, Anthem Press, 2004,
pp. 497–537
17. * “Public Choice and Altruism,” the
Eastern Economic Journal 29, No. 3, Summer 2003
18. * “Perspectives on the Guaranteed Income,
Part II,” the Journal of Economic Issues 35, No. 4, December 2001
19. * “Perspectives on the Guaranteed Income,
Part I” the Journal of Economic Issues 35, No. 3, pp. 749–757, September
2001
20. * “Reciprocity and the Guaranteed Income,”
Politics and Society, Volume 33, No. 3, pp. 386–401, September 1999
21. “Redistribution and Reciprocity” in Proceedings
of the Pennsylvania Economics Association Annual Meeting, D. Y. Lee (ed.),
1998
Papers
Under Review
“Lockean Property theory” at the Journal of Moral Philosophy
“The Physical Basis of Voluntary Trade” at
Economics and Philosophy
Translations
22. “Predicciones
de Keynes: ‘Las posibilidades económicas de nuestros nietros’ Una visión
restrospectiva” Ciudadanos: Critica
Política y Propuesta Año 6, No. 10 El
Futuro (Invierno de 2006). Traducido por José Villadeamigo, pp. 55-60 de “Re-Reading Keynes” Dissent
Book Reviews
23. Review of Natural Justice, Ken Binmore, Utilitas
(forthcoming)
24. Review of the Ethics of Stakeholding, Keith Dowding, Jurgen De Wispelaere,
and Stuart White, the Citizens Income Newsletter, Issue 2, 2007
25. Review of Libertarianism Without
Inequality, Michael Otsuka, the Citizens Income Newsletter, Issue 1,
2005
26. Review of Work Behavior of the World’s
Poor: Theory Evidence and Policy, Mohammed Sharif, the Citizens Income
Newsletter, Issue 3, 2004
27. Review of The Civic Minimum, Stuart
White, the Citizens Income Newsletter, 2004 (1)
28. Review of Real Libertarianism Assessed,
Andrew Reeve and Andrew Williams (eds.), the Citizens Income Newsletter,
Issue 1, 2004
29. Review of Economics as Religion: from
Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond, Robert H. Nelson, the Eastern Economic
Journal 30, No. 1, 2004
30. Review of The Political Economy of
Inequality, Ackerman, Goodwin, Dougherty, and Gallagher (eds.), the
Journal of Economic Issues 35, No. 4, December 2001
Economic Policy Reports
31. Academic Intervention Services, New York: The Educational Priorities Panel, 2001
32. Getting It Right, The Educational Priorities Panel, 2001
33. The Regressive Effect of STAR, The Educational Priorities Panel, 2001
34. Checkerboard II: An Analysis of Tax
Effort, Equalization, and Extraordinary Needs Aid, The Educational Priorities Panel, 2001
35. Building Aid Short Changes the Big Cities, The Educational Priorities Panel, 2000
Articles in the Popular Media
36.
“Conference
Report: The Eleventh BIEN Congress” Citizens
Income Newsletter Issue 2, 2007
37.
“Re-Reading
Keynes: Economic Possibilities of Our Grandparents” Dissent, Winter 2006
38. “The Basic Income Guarantee,” Synthesis/Regeneration
26, Fall 2001
39. “The Money-Making Ethic,” Chronogram
Magazine, New Paltz, NY, January 1999
40. “Blaming the Worker,” Chronogram
Magazine, January 1998
41. “The Book is Dead,” Cake: The Nonmusic
Music Magazine, October 1996
Newsletters
The U.S. Basic Income Guaranteed Network
Newsletter, 2000-present.
Subscription 600
• 46
issues: Volume 1, No. 1 January 2000 – current issue
Summary, the Jerome Levy Economics Institute of
Bard College, Subscription 8,000
• 12
issues: Volume 6, No. 3, Summer 1997 – Volume 9, No. 3, Summer 2000
Total
publications of all kinds:
99
Invited Presentations
Keynote
speaker: “Is freedom a limitation on redistribution or a motivation for it?”
Conference: Social aspects of Green Economics, Mansfield College, Oxford
University, February 9, 2008
“Status
Freedom” The Cardiff Political Theory Research Seminar, Cardiff University,
November 30, 2007
Panelist,
“Basic Income and the Republican Legacy,” Towards a Basic Income Society?
Conference at the Centre for the Study of Social Justice, Department of Politics
and International Relations, University of Oxford, October 26, 2007
“The
Labor Market Effects of Basic Income,” Swedish Green Party Headquarters,
Stockholm, August 19, 2006
“Getting
the Question Right in a European Basic Income Experiment,” Towards a Basic Income Experiment, University of Valencia,
Valencia, Spain, October 20, 2005
“A
Failure to Communicate: What (if Anything) Can we Learn from the Negative
Income Tax Experiments?” EFS Exploratory
Workshop: Toward a European Basic Income Experiment, Barcelona, Spain,
September 18, 2004
Panelist,
“Economic Equity / Income Sufficiency,” Living
Justice: Pathways from Poverty and Commitment to the Common Good, a
conference at the Vincentian Center for Church and Society, St. John’s
University, October 20, 2001
Respondent,
The Educational Priorities Panel’s
Regional Cost Adjustment Forum, for members and staff of the New York State
Legislature, April 3, 2001
Panelist,
“What to do About Inequality,” AFEE-Levy
Summer School on Institutional Economics, the Jerome Levy Economics
Institute of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, June 20–23, 1999
Editorial and
Organizational Credits
Editor, Basic Income Studies, 2005–present (www.bepress.com/bis/), a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal specializing in
articles on basic income and related policies
• Volume
1, Issue 1, May 2006 through current issue
Editor (www.levy.org),
the Levy Institute
• Nine Policy Briefs and Policy Notes, five
Conference Proceedings
Referee
• Journal of Socio-Economics, Louvain
Economic Review, Eastern Economic Journal, Journal of European
Social Policy, and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
Conference
Organizer, the Second,
Third, Fourth and Sixth Congresses of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network, 2003–2007 (www.usbig.net)
• Interdisciplinary
academic and policy conference with 40–80 participants each year
Memberships
Founding member and coordinator: The U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network
Trustee: The
Citizens Income Trust, United Kingdom
Executive Committee Member, Basic Income European Network
Member:
American Political Science Association, Political Studies Association, American
Philosophical Association, American Economic Association, Eastern Economic
Association
Grants,
Awards, and Fellowships
Murphy Institute Faculty Fellowship, Tulane
University, 2006–2007, eight-month award, approximate value $45,000
Clarendon Fellowship, Oxford
University, 2002–2005, three-year award, approximate value $50,000
Hoover Fellowship in economic and social ethics, Chair Hoover d’éthique économique et
sociale, Université catholique de Louvain, 2001, six-month award,
approximate value $8,000
Gilleece Fellowship, the City University of New York, New York, NY, 1990–1994,
four-year award, approximate value $70,000