Guy Standing: British economist
Guy Standing (born 9 February 1948) is a British professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and helped start Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN).
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_in_2012.jpg) Guy Standing, seated, in 2012 | |
| Born | 9 February 1948 |
| Nationality | British |
| Institution | Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) and School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |
| Field | Unconditional basic income and deliberative democracy |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (PhD) University of Illinois (MA) University of Sussex (BA) |
| Contributions | Theory of the precariat |
| Awards | Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) |
Standing has written about labour economics, unemployment, basic income and democracy. He wrote the book The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class in 2011.
Honors
- Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).
References
Other websites
- Official website
- Le précariat: "une classe en devenir", interview for French webzine Basta!, October 2012
- Conference of Guy Standing at the University of Sydney at YouTube, February 2012
- Precariat And Peasant: Reframing Social Protection For The 21st Century at YouTube, July 2013
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