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About Philippe van Parijs

Philippe van Parijs, a fellow of the British Academy, is a professor at the Universities of Louvain and Leuven and a Robert Schuman fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.

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Basic income: Finland’s final verdict

by Philippe van Parijs on 7th May 2020

The coronavirus crisis has renewed interest in the notion of a universal basic income. The full report of a two-year Finnish experiment has just appeared.

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A fair Brexit

by Philippe van Parijs on 16th December 2019

For the free-market Tory right, Brexit is a means towards a beggar-my-neighbour buccaneering adventure—not ‘future relations’ to which the EU27 can agree.

Building A Europe For The People

by Philippe van Parijs on 24th May 2017

‘For the people, not just for the elites!’: this is the rallying cry of all brands of populism. The triumph of populism is a calamity, but the threat of populism is a crucial quality of any democracy. It is what makes a democratic regime better than a technocratic, bureaucratic or autocratic regime. It is what […]

Thatcher’s Plot — And How To Defeat It

by Philippe van Parijs on 29th November 2016

Where can we find the most lucid compact description of the predicament of today’s European Union? In a powerful plea for its creation written nearly 80 years ago. In “The economic conditions of interstate federalism” (1939), reprinted in his Individualism and Economic Order, Friedrich Hayek explains why he finds a multinational federation, much later exemplified […]

Could Any Good Come Out Of The Brexit Vote?

by Philippe van Parijs on 16th September 2016

Will Brexit turn out to be, all things considered, a good thing? I very much doubt it. Essentially because what it amounts to is that a big chunk of the European population is opting out, for an indefinite future, of a major process of civilization. Civilization? Yes, civilization, that is progress from violence to negotiation […]

The Worldwide March To Basic Income: Thank You Switzerland!

by Philippe van Parijs on 7th June 2016

June 5, 2016 will be remembered as an important landmark in the worldwide march towards the implementation of unconditional basic income (UBI) schemes. All Swiss citizens were asked that day to express their approval of or opposition to the following proposal: The Confederation introduces an unconditional basic income. The basic income must enable the whole […]

Basic Income And Social Democracy

by Philippe van Parijs on 11th April 2016

The basic income approach is absolutely essential, but it is not part of the social democratic tradition. Think about it. The post-war consensus was all about national insurance, it was not about basic income. Now, either we are going to have a basic income that regulates this new society of ours, or we are going […]

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