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Philippe Van Parijs

Philippe Van Parijs is Professor of Economic and Social Ethics at the University of Louvain and co-author of Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Soceity and a Sane Economy.

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In this classic BR forum, the chief modern proponent of UBI argues that a guaranteed basic income would secure real justice for all.

Philippe Van Parijs

Forum Responses

Editor’s Note: This Forum is available as our spring 2017 print issue. We are pleased to make it freely available online thanks to the generous support of the Cameron Schrier Foundation, the William and...
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What an unexpectedly sympathetic set of comments! No doubt unrepresentative of US public opinion. But it’s a start. I will focus my comments here on the most critical remarks, concentrating first on...
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Sam Bowles and Herb Gintis want us to face squarely two sets of facts that impose tight limits on what egalitarians can hope for: the moral dispositions shaped by millennia of genetic...
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