Dr Guy Standing

Labour economist and Professorial Research Associate at SOAS

Dr Guy Standing is an economist and Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London. He previously held chairs at SOAS and the universities of Bath (UK) and Monash (Australia). These followed a long career at the International Labour Organization, where he was Director of its Socio-Economic Security Programme and, earlier, of its Labour Market Policies Branch.

His current research interests centre on basic income (he is a founder and honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), an NGO promoting basic income as a right), the plunder of the commons and how to revive them, and rentier capitalism and the growth of the precariat. Recent books include Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen (2017); The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay (2016); A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (2014); and The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (2011).