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Michael A. Lewis
is a social worker and sociologist interested in the economic
dimensions of social work and social policy and applications of
mathematical methods in social work research. He’s written about
income support policy, civic engagement, social networks, and
quantitative research methods. From a practice point of view, Lewis
worked as a community organizer in the East New York Section of
Brooklyn, NY and has engaged in policy practice related to income support
policy. He is also a co-founder of United States Basic Income Guarantee
Network (USBIG) a network of academics and activists committed to
promoting discussion of the basic income guarantee.
Publications: Books/Edited
Works
Lewis,
Michael A. Invited to Guest Edit Special Issue
of Basic Income Studies on the Right to Work and
Basic Income.
Lewis,
Michael A. and Noguchi, Eri. Further Statistics for Social Workers: Concepts, Techniques, and Mathematical
Foundations. New
York: Columbia
University Press (received contract).
Lewis,
Michael A., Pressman Steve, and Widerquist, Karl
(editors). The Economics and Ethics of the
Basic Income. England:
Ashgate, 2005.
Lewis.
Michael A.; Pressman, Steven; and Widerquist,
Karl (guest editors). Review of Social Economy,
vol. 63 (December, 2005).
Lewis,
Michael A. and Widerquist, Karl. Economics
for Social Workers, New
York: Columbia University
Press, New York:
Columbia University
Press, 2002.
Peer-Reviewed
Journals
Lewis, Michael A.
and Noguchi, Eri. “A Gendered Network Model
of Self-Reported Health.” Journal
of Sociology and Social Welfare (in review).
Lewis, Michael A.
and Noguchi, Eri. “My Neighbors Made Me
Do It: An Exploration of a Neighborhood Network
Model of Activism.” Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, vol.
2008, no. 8 (August 2008).
Lewis,
Michael A. and Noguchi, Eri. “The Female
Corp of Volunteers: How Gender and Labor Supply
Interact to Affect Civic Participation.”
Race, Class,
and Gender, vol 13, no.3-4 (2007), 255-267.
Widerquist,
Karl and Lewis, Michael A. “An Efficiency
Argument for the Basic Income Guarantee.”
International Journal of Environment,
Workplace, and Employment, vol. 2, no. 1 (2006),
pp. 21-43.
Lewis.
Michael A.; Pressman, Steven; and Widerquist,
Karl. “The Basic Income Guarantee and Social
Economics,” Review of Social Economy,
vol. 63 (December, 2005), pp. 587-593.
Lewis,
Michael A. “Some Questions about Harvey’s
Discussion of the Relative Merits of the Basic
Income and the Right to Work.” Rutgers
School of Law Journal of Law and Urban Policy,
vol. 2, issue 1, (2005).
Lewis
Michael A. “Perhaps there can be too Much
Freedom.” The Journal of Socio-Economics,
vol. 34, issue 1, (2005), pp. 17-26.
Berger,
Candyce S.; Robbins, Charles; Lewis, Michael A.;
Mizrahi, Terry; and Fleit, Shelly. “The
Impact of Organizational Change on Social Work
Staffing in a Hospital Setting: A National Longitudinal
Study of Social Work in Hospitals,” Social
Work in Health Care, vol. 37, (2003), pp.
1-18.
Battle, Juan and Lewis, Michael
A. “The Increasing Significance of Class:
The Relative Effect of Race and Socioeconomic
Status on Academic Achievement,” Journal
of Poverty, vol. 6, (2002), pp. 21-35.
Lewis,
Michael A. “A Time Series Analysis of the
Effect of Welfare on Earnings,” Journal
of Sociology and Social Welfare, vol. 28,
(December 2001), pp. 161-171.
Lewis,
Michael A. “A Path Analysis of the Effect
of Welfare on Infant Mortality,” Journal
of Sociology and Social Welfare, vol. 24,
(September 1999), pp. 125-136.
Lewis,
Michael A. “A Few Contributions of Economic
Theory to Social Welfare Policy Analysis,”
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare,
vol. 24, (December 1998), pp. 145-156.
Book
Chapters
Wheeler,
D.P.; Lewis, M.; Parchment, T.M.; and Van Sluytman,
L.G.; “Most Marginalized in HIV” in
Social Services and Social Action in
the HIV Pandemic: Principles, Methods, and Populations.
New Jersey: John
Wiley and Sons (forthcoming).
Widerquist,
Karl and Lewis, Michael A. “The Basic Income
Guarantee and the Goals of Equality, Efficiency,
and Environmentalism” in Environment
and Employment: A Reconciliation. Lawn, Philip
(editor). New York: Routledge
(forthcoming).
Lewis,
Michael A. “Time Series Analysis”
in Handbook of Probability: Theory and Applications.
Rudas, Tamas (editor). California:
Sage Publications (2008).
Lewis,
Michael A. “Economics and Social Welfare,”
in The Social Work Encyclopedia. Mizrahi. Terry
(editor). New York: Oxford University
Press (2008).
Lewis,
Michael A. (with Steven Pressman and Karl Widerquist),
“An Introduction to the Basic Income Guarantee,”
Widerquist, Karl; Lewis, Michael Anthony; and
Pressman Steven (editors), The Ethics and Economics
of the Basic Income Guarantee. England:
Ashgate, 2005.
Lewis,
Michael A. “Perhaps There can be too Much
Freedom?” (reprint). Widerquist, Karl; Lewis,
Michael Anthony; and Pressman Steven (editors),
The Ethics and Economics of the Basic Income
Guarantee.
England:
Ashgate, 2005.
Lewis,
Michael A. “A Justification of the Right
to Welfare,” Aronowitz, Stanley and Cutler, Jonathan (editors),
Post Work, New
York: Routledge, 1998.
Conference
Proceedings
Lewis,
Michael A. “A Libertarian Case for the Guaranteed
Income” in Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Economics Association
Annual Meetings (1998).
Working
Papers
Lewis, Michael A. “The Effect of Immigration
on Natives’ Job Prospects and Some Related
Policy Issues” (2007).
Lewis,
Michael A. and Noguchi, Eri. “Power Law
Behavior in Civic Engagement.” (2006).
Noguchi,
Eri and Lewis, Michael A. “A Woman’s
Work is Never Done: How Gender Interacts with
Labor Supply, Homemaking, and Care Work in Relation
to Volunteering.” (2007).
Lewis,
Michael A. “What to do About Care Work:
Compensate or Facilitate?” (2006).
Lewis,
Michael A. and Noguchi, Eri. “Class-Based
Inequities in Civic Participation: Some Possible
Reasons, One Possible Solution” (2004).
Noguchi,
Eri and Lewis, Michael A. “In Defense of
Lazy: An Argument for Less Work, More Community”
(2004).
Lewis.
Michael A. and Farberman, Harvey A. “The
Cost of Caring: The Impact of Caring for the Elderly
on Women’s Earnings (2004).
Noguchi,
Eri and Lewis, Michael A. “Unconditional
Basic Income: A Basic Condition of a Better Society”
(2004).
Recent Refereed and Invited Presentations:
Date
Title Location
2/2007 What
to do About Eastern
Economics Association, New
York, NY Care Work:
Compensate
or
Facilitate?
11/2006 The
Cost of Caring Basic Income
Earth Network, Cape Town,
South Africa
3/2005 Unconditional
Basic Eastern Economics
Association, New York,
NY
Income
11/2004 In
Defense of Lazy Basic
Income Earth Network, Barcelona,
Spain
Class
Based
Inequities
in Civic
Participation
3/2003 In
Defense of Lazy Eastern
Economics Association, New
York, NY
Class
Based
Inequities
in Civic
Participation
3/2001
A Critique of Phelps’ Eastern Economics
Association, New York, NY Welfare Economic
Justification
of Wage
Subsidies
7/1999 A
Cost-Benefit Society for the
Advancement of
Perspective
on the Socio-Economics, Madison, Wisconsin
Work
Ethic
8/1997 An
Efficiency Society
for the Study of Social Problems,
Argument
for the Toronto, Canada
Guaranteed
Income
8/1996 An
Argument for the Society for
the Study of Social Problems,
Right
to Subsistence New York, NY
8/95 The
Sanctity of American Sociological
Association,
Work Washington, D.C.
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