Author Lecture & Panel Discussion: ‘Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy’

About the Author:

Philippe Van Parijs is the Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics at University of Louvain.

Discussants: Rathin Roy, Director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research (CPR) About the Book It may sound crazy to pay people an income whether or not they are working or looking for work. But the idea of providing an unconditional basic income to every individual, rich or poor, active or inactive, has been advocated by such major thinkers as Thomas Paine, John Stuart Mill, and John Kenneth […]

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