Guy Standing - Basic Income: the case for a significant new policy
In conjunction with Basic Income New Zealand and Auckland Debating Society, we present Guy Standing, leading
international speaker on Basic Income, author of The Precariat, with as a panel to respond to his presentation, Sue Bradford and Keith Rankin.
Guy Standing is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London, and a founder and co-President of the
Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), an NGO promoting basic income as a right. He has held chairs at the Universities of
Bath and Monash (Australia) and was previously Director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International
Labour Organisation.
He is currently working on pilot basic income schemes in India and on issues relating to his two recent books, The
Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (2011) and A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (2014).
Professor Standing's book recently featured in University World News:Higher education and the precariat class.
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When
Thursday 31 August, 6.30pm
Where
Epsom Campus
Lecture Theatre J1
University of Auckland
76 Epsom Ave
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