Guy Standing (economist)

Guy Standing FAcSS
Standing at the BIEN Congress in 2012
Born	(1948-02-09) 9 February 1948 (age 76)
Nationality	British
Academic career
Field	Unconditional basic income deliberative democracy
Institution	Basic Income Earth Network School of Oriental and African Studies
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (PhD) University of Illinois (MA) University of Sussex (BA)
Contributions	Theory of the precariat
Awards	Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences (2009)

Guy Standing FAcSS (born 9 February 1948) is a British labour economist. He is a professor of development studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London,^[1] and a co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN).^[2] Standing has written widely in the areas of labour economics, labour market policy, unemployment, labour market flexibility, structural adjustment policies and social protection. He created the term precariat to describe an emerging class of workers who are harmed by low wages and poor job security as a consequence of globalisation. Since the 2011 publication of his book The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class, his work has focused on the precariat, unconditional basic income, deliberative democracy, and the commons.^[3]