Simon Birnbaum is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Södertörn University. He is also a researcher at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University and the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. Birnbaum has published extensively on social justice, basic income, and the universal welfare state, including the monographs Basic Income Reconsidered: Social Justice, Liberalism and the Demands of Equality (Palgrave, 2012) and The Generational Welfare Contract: Justice, Institutions and Outcomes (co-written with Kenneth Nelson, Tommy Ferrarini and Joakim Palme, Edward Elgar 2017).