Speaker

Philippe VAN PARIJS

Professor - University of Louvain

Philippe Van Parijs is an emeritus and guest professor at the University of Louvain, where he directed the  Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics since its creation in 1991 until 2016). He is also a special guest professor at the University of Leuven and an associate member of Nuffield College, Oxford. From 2004 to 2010 he was a visiting professor at Harvard University, from 2011 to 2015 at the University of Oxford, and in 2016 a Robert Schuman Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence). He is a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is one of the founders of the Basic Income Earth Network and chairs its International Board.

His books include Evolutionary Explanation in the Social Sciences (Rowman & Littlefield, 1981), Le Modèle économique et ses rivaux (Droz, 1990), Qu’est-ce qu’une société juste? (Seuil 1991), Marxism Recycled (Cambridge U.P. 1993), Real Freedom for All (Oxford U.P. 1995), Sauver la solidarité (Le Cerf, 1995), Refonder la solidarité (Le Cerf, 1996),  Ethique économique et sociale (La Découverte, 2000, with C. Arnsperger), L’Allocation universelle (La Découverte, 2005, with Y. Vanderborght), Just Democracy (ECPR 2011), Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World (Oxford U.P. 2011), After the Storm. How to Save Democracy in Europe (Lannoo 2015, with L. van Middelaar) 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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