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.
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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 basic financial security.
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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’, means the Right would prefer to ignore it - and progressives need to celebrate and renew it.