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Guy Standing
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Guy Standing sitting in 2012
Born (1948-02-09) 9 February 1948 (age 76)
Nationality British
Institution Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN)
and School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Field Unconditional basic income and deliberative democracy
Alma mater University of Cambridge (PhD)
University of Illinois (MA)
University of Sussex (BA)
Contributions Theory of the precariat
Awards Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS)

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

Standing has written about labour economics, unemployment, and other areas. His writing now is about basic income and democracy. He wrote the book The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class in 2011.

Honors

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).

, February 2012 , July 2013

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