Dr Guy Standing is Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London, Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences, and co-founder and honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN). Subjects of recent books include basic income, rentier capitalism and the growing precariat. He is a council member of the Progressive Economy Forum.
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Published in: ourEconomyWhy ‘Universal Basic Services’ is no alternative to Basic IncomeIt's time for advocates of ‘Universal Basic Services’ to stop juxtaposing the idea of more and better public...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDon't be fooled: Britain's social ills can definitely be blamed on rising inequalityWhy the FT's economics editor is wrong to dismiss concerns about inequality.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHow the precariat – and UBI – can stop neoliberalism from destroying the planetTaxes on exploiting the commons - both exhaustible and non-exhaustible resources - could be used to give people...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy you've never heard of a Charter that's as important as the Magna CartaThe Charter of the Forest was sealed 800 years ago today. Its defence of the property-less and of ‘the commons’,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe left must combat rentier capitalismOld systems of wealth redistribution cannot combat the rise of rentier capitalism. We must find new solutions.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe UK budget: King Canute and the triumph of moralism over moralityGeorge Osborne's emergency budget reveals a government more concerned with moralising than any actual morals.