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Philippe Van Parijs
Philippe van Parijs is Professor at the Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences of the University of Louvain (UCL), where he has directed the Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics since its creation, in 1991. Van Parijs is a founding member of the Basic Income European Networkand and he has authored books such as Real Freedom for All. What (if anything) can justify capitalism? (1995) and Basic income: a simple and powerful idea for the twenty-first century (2004). He is internationally recognized for being one of the proponents of the basic income and also for offering one of the first systematic treatments to language justice issues.