Philippe Van Parijs
Political philosopher and Political Economist, Université catholique de Louvain,
Philippe Van Parijs was the founding director of the the University of Louvain’s Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics from 1991 to 2016. He is now a guest professor at the Universities of Louvain and Leuven and an associate member of Nuffield College, Oxford. From 2004 to 2010 he was a visiting professor at Harvard University, from 2011 to 2015 at the University of Oxford, and in 2016 a Robert Schuman Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence). He is a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is one of the founders of the Basic Income Earth Network and chairs its International Board. His most recent books are Just Democracy. The Rawls-Machivelli Programme (ECPR 2011), Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World (Oxford U.P. 2011), After the Storm. How to Save Democracy in Europe (Lannoo 2015, with L. van Middelaar) and Basic Income. A radical proposal for a free society and a sane economy (Harvard U.P. 2017, with Y. Vanderborght).
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Perspectives on Universal Basic Income
At this event, we discussed the possible benefits but also the possible disadvantages of Universal Basic Income.