Philippe Van Parijs, 'Godfather of the UBI movement' as Prospect magazine has called him, has been voted number 8 in the magazine's poll. Dreams of “incomes for all” trace way back—Thomas Paine proposed one scheme. But even before the government picked up the wage...
Guy Standing and Philippe Van Parijs interviewed for an article in El Pais
The Spanish newspaper El Pais has published an article, 'La renta básica deja de ser una utopía' ('Basic income is no longer a utopia'): La pandemia lleva a diversos países a ensayar planes de transferencias directas no universales para compensar la reducción en los...
ITALY: Philippe van Parijs delivers annual Il Mulino lecture
Phillipe van Parijs (at the Lisbon BIEN 2017 Conference). Credit to: Enno Schmidt. Phillipe van Parijs has delivered the 2017 annual Il Mulino lecture, which happened on Saturday, the 28th of October, at the Bologna University’s Aula Magna. This major event,...
Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght, “Basic income and the freedom to lead a good life”
Van Parijs and Vanderborght contribute a chapter to The Good Life Beyond Growth: New Perspectives, a collection of essays in Routledge’s series Studies in Ecological Economics.
Philippe Van Parijs lectures on “Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy”
In honor of the launch of the book, Van Parijs has delivered several public lectures, beginning with events in Copenhagen, Denmark (March 28) and Stockholm, Sweden (March 30).
Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy, by Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght
BIEN co-founder Philippe van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght have coauthored a major new work: Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy, published in March 2017 by Harvard University Press.
BIEN is 30: Interview with Philippe Van Parijs
How has BIEN changed in the past 30 years? What have been its biggest challenges, most difficult times, and greatest successes? And what’s next?
VIDEO: Philippe Van Parijs at TEDx Ghent
BIEN cofounder Philippe van Parijs delivered a TEDx talk on basic income in Ghent, Belgium on June 18, 2016. A video of the talk is available on YouTube.
ANTWERP, BELGIUM: Basic Income debate & Philippe Van Parijs talk (Sep 19)
A debate on universal basic income is scheduled to take place at the University of Antwerp on September 19. BIEN’s Philippe Van Parijs will also speak at the event.
Philippe van Parijs, “Basic Income And Social Democracy”
In a recent article for Social Europe, Philippe van Parijs -- philosopher, social scientist, and co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network -- urges social democrats to (re-)introduce the basic income as part of their agenda. Along the way, he addresses several...
VIDEO: Charl Schlyter, "Philippe Van Parijs: Real freedom for all with a basic income"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsmYN1Y_jgo Charl Schlyter, "Philippe Van Parijs: Real freedom for all with a basic income", Basic Income Europe, 2013 September 2
Philippe Van Parijs, “The Eurodividend: Why the EU should introduce a basic income for all”
PUBLISHER’S SUMMARY: ‘Philippe Van Parijs argues for a basic income for all legal residents of the European Union to be financed by Value Added Tax. Unlike the US, the EU lacks automatic inter-state transfers and migration between states is much less common. A...
Philippe Van Parijs, “L'allocation universelle: solution à la crise de l'Etat-Providence? [Basic Income: solution to the crisis of the welfare state?”
Philippe Van Parijs, “L'allocation universelle: solution à la crise de l'Etat-Providence? [Basic Income: solution to the crisis of the welfare state?” propos recuillis par Eugénie Bastié, FigaroVox, 5 May 2014.
VIDEO: UBIE Conference: Philippe Van Parijs and Guy Standing on the growing UBI movement
SUMMARY: This video is from a conference in Brussels organized by Unconditional Basic Income Europe. Philippe Van Parijs, Chair of Advisory Board of BIEN and a professor at the Catholic University of Louvain speaks on “Euro-Dividend: An example for an partial basic...
VIDEO: Professor Philippe Van Parijs, “UBI – Beautifully, disarmingly simple idea”
Professor Philippe Van Parijs, “UBI – Beautifully, disarmingly simple idea”, Youtube, October 29, 2012
Philippe Van Parijs, "Arguing for the introduction of a basic income"
On December 13th, 2013, the French daily Le Monde has published a column entitled "Pour la mise en place d'un revenu universel" ("Arguing for the introduction of a basic income"), by Philippe Van Parijs (Louvain University). Among other things, Van Parijs refers to...
Philippe Van Parijs, “The Universal Basic Income: Why Utopian Thinking Matters, and How Sociologists Can Contribute to It”
ABSTRACT: Utopian thinking consists of formulating proposals for radical reforms, justifying them on the basis of normative principles combined with the best possible scientific analysis of the root causes of the problems the proposals are meant to address, and...
Copenhagen, Denmark: “Lectures with Philippe Van Parijs,” Nov. 1-2, 2013
Philippe Van Parijs, professor at the Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, will give two lectures in Copenhagen on November 1 - 2. In the first, on Nov. 1, he will talk about his idea of financing a European...
Philippe Van Parijs defends basic income on Belgian TV
On Tuesday 15 October 2013, Philippe Van Parijs (Louvain University) took part in a popular TV show on Belgium French-speaking TV channel RTBf. He had no more than 3 minutes to argue in favour of basic income, and reply to various questions about its feasibility. In...
Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght, "Il reddito minimo universale"
Bocconi University Press has just published a second edition of "Il reddito minimo universale", an introductory book on basic income written by Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght (Louvain University). Originally published in French in 2005, this book had...