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Guy Standing


Born
in The United Kingdom
February 09, 1948

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Guy Standing is a British professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN).

Standing has written widely in the areas of labour economics, labour market policy, unemployment, labour market flexibility, structural adjustment policies and social protection. His recent work has concerned the emerging precariat class and the need to move towards unconditional basic income and deliberative democracy.

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“education sold as an investment good that has no economic return for most buyers is, quite simply, a fraud.”
Guy Standing, The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class

“Why should people with particular skills – always accepting they are skills – live a vastly better economic life than others who have different skills?”
Guy Standing, The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class

“Without the freedom to make ‘mistakes’, people cannot learn to take control of their lives successfully.”
Guy Standing, A Pelican Introduction: Basic Income

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