Guy Standing on Universal Basic Income

Guy Standing is famous as the author of The Precariat, but he is also the world’s foremost advocate for universal basic income, the writer of aprodigious canon of economic and social books and the leader of a successful trial of basic income in poor villages in India...

Professor Guy Standing – Basic Income

Guy Standing, Professorial Research Associate at SOAS and co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), will be joining us this Thursday (1st February) for an exciting talk about universal basic income. Standing’s best-known book is ‘The Precariat:...

Kate Raworth took no prisoners

Well that was something.  Kate Raworth is about as sunny and bubbly a person as you could hope to meet, and yet when she speaks her mind, you know you’ve heard.  She calls herself a renegade economist, though it wouldn’t be ridiculous to call her a...