Philippe Van Parijs is a guest professor at the Universities of Louvain and Leuven. He was the founding director of Louvain’s Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics from 1991 to 2016, and a regular visiting professor at Harvard University from 2004 to 2008 and at the University of Oxford from 2011 to 2015. In 1986, He convened the founding conference of BIEN, now the Basic Income Earth Network, and chairs its Advisory Board. His books include Real Freedom for All (Oxford U.P., 1995), What’s Wrong with a Free Lunch? (Beacon Press, 2001), and Basic Income. A radical proposal for a free society and a sane economy (Harvard U.P. 2017, with Y. Vanderborght).
The European cultural sector, pandemic precarity, and Universal Basic Income
What a UBI offers is a form of protection that does not trap people either outside employment (thanks to its universality) or inside employment (thanks to its being obligation-free).
August 12, 2021
In Search of a Sane Economy
What is a sane economy? An economy that is sane is an economy that doesn’t make people sick, and doesn’t make our planet sick. Basic income is a way of making the economy more sane.
October 18, 2019