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: Rethinking PopulismGlobal transformation: the precariat overcoming populism
A contribution to debate urging the mainstream left not to be distracted by populism. Aim instead for what we know...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWill Biden lead a progressive revival or a populist backlash?
If the left wants to prevent a neoliberal dystopia, it must stop offering to patch over inequalities and instead...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionRentier Capitalism is breeding neo-fascism
Faced with a crisis of awesome proportions, we must develop a strategy for re-embedding the economy in society.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBasic income and the three varieties of freedom
Freedom costs money.
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Published in: ourEconomyPlunder of the commons: compensate the commoners!
After centuries of enclosure, privatisation and colonisation, it's time that the commons were returned to all of us.
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Published in: ourEconomyWhy ‘Universal Basic Services’ is no alternative to Basic Income
It's time for advocates of ‘Universal Basic Services’ to stop juxtaposing the idea of more and better public...