Guy Standing

British economist

Guy Standing (born 9 February 1948)[1] is a British professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London,[2] and helped start Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN).[3]

Guy Standing
Guy Standing, seated, in 2012
Born (1948-02-09) 9 February 1948 (age 76)
NationalityBritish
InstitutionBasic Income Earth Network (BIEN)
and School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
FieldUnconditional basic income and deliberative democracy
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (PhD)
University of Illinois (MA)
University of Sussex (BA)
ContributionsTheory of the precariat
AwardsFellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS)

Standing has written about labour economics, unemployment, basic income and democracy.[4] He wrote the book The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class in 2011.[5]

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  1. "Standing, Guy". Library of Congress. Retrieved 4 July 2014. found: His Population mobility and productive relations, 1984: CIP t.p. (Guy Standing) data sheet (b. 2/9/48)
  2. "Professor Guy Standing, Department of Development Studies". School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  3. "About BIEN". Archived from the original on 2012-10-25.
  4. Standing, Guy (27 January 2012). "The precariat: why it needs deliberative democracy". OpenDemocracy. Archived from the original on 25 June 2014. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  5. Standing, Guy (2011). The precariat. City: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-84966-455-4.
  6. "Fellows". Academy of Social Sciences. Archived from the original on 28 May 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2014.

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