Philippe VAN PARIJS
- Professor of Economics & Philosophy
- Université catholique de Louvain
Bio
Philippe Van Parijs is a guest professor at the Universities of Louvain and Leuven. He was the founding director of Louvain’s Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics from 1991 to 2016, and a regular visiting professor at Harvard University and the University of Oxford from 2004 to 2015.
He chairs the Advisory Board of the Basic Income Earth Network, which he co-founded in 1986. In July 2020, the British magazine Prospect selected him, as « the godfather of the basic income movement », among « the world’s top ten thinkers for the Covid-19 age ».
His books include Qu’est-ce qu’une société juste? (Seuil, 1991), Marxism Recycled (Cambridge U.P., 1993), Real Freedom for All (Oxford U.P. 1995), What’s Wrong with a Free Lunch? (Beacon Press, 2001), Just Democracy. The Rawls-Machiavelli Programme (ECPR 2011), Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World (Oxford U.P. 2011) and Basic Income. A radical proposal for a free society and a sane economy (Harvard U.P. 2017, with Y. Vanderborght).
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