Guy Standing (economist)

Guy Standing
Standing at the BIEN Congress in 2012
Born (1948-02-09) 9 February 1948 (age 76)
NationalityBritish
Academic career
Field
Institution
Alma mater
ContributionsTheory of the precariat
AwardsFellowship 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]

  1. ^ "Professor Guy Standing, Department of Development Studies". School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  2. ^ "About BIEN". Archived from the original on 25 October 2012.
  3. ^ Standing, Guy (27 January 2012). "The precariat: why it needs deliberative democracy". OpenDemocracy. Retrieved 4 July 2014.