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, attended by around 900 people, had the presence of former Prime Minister and European Commission president Romano Prodi,
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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.
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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).
» Read moreBIEN co-founder Philippe Van Parijs will deliver the second annual Ailsa McKay Memorial Lecture at Glasgow Caledonian University. The lecture will be based on his new book, Basic Income: A radical proposal for a free society and a sane economy.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
» Read moreIn 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 popular misunderstandings that have tended to make those on the left wary of the idea of providing all adults
» Read moreCharl Schlyter, “Philippe Van Parijs: Real freedom for all with a basic income“, Basic Income Europe, 2013 September 2
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