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...
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...
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,...
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.
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).
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.
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?
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.
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.
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...
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
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?” propos recuillis par Eugénie Bastié, FigaroVox, 5 May 2014.
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...
Professor Philippe Van Parijs, “UBI – Beautifully, disarmingly simple idea”, Youtube, October 29, 2012
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...