Workfare will merely accentuate the growth of the low-paying, insecure labour market. — Guy Standing Growth Copy Share Image
If you're healthier, you tend to have a lower demand for health services. — Guy Standing Demand Copy Share Image
The Magna Carta was the first class-based charter, enforced on the monarchy by the rising class. — Guy Standing Class Copy Share Image
Means-tested benefits have one incredible feature in that they impose huge poverty traps. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
People want to work, but they don't want to necessarily want to do labour. — Guy Standing Labour Copy Share Image
Sanctions and workfare make it easier for employers to impose insecure practices on desperate people. — Guy Standing Desperate Copy Share Image
Think how modern economics presents work. Only labour that contributes to growth counts. — Guy Standing Economics Copy Share Image
The income distribution system constructed in the 20th century has broken down, and it will not come back. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Capital is taxed much less than labour; subsidies going to capital, the rich, and middle-income earners greatly exceed the benefits going to… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
The evidence shows if you give people security, they become better people. They develop their talents. They become better citizens. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
If you had a basic income, it would mean that everybody would have a base on top of which their earned income… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
In the interests of competitiveness in a globalizing world economy, governments of all complexions introduced labour-market reforms that promoted flexibility but accentuated… — Guy Standing Economics Copy Share Image
Politicians should reflect on the well-documented fact that fearful, insecure people lose their sense of tolerance and altruism. — Guy Standing Altruism Copy Share Image
If schooling becomes little more than preparation for the job market and consumption, it cannot produce socially responsible and altruistic citizens. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
What distinguishes a commons is that it is not private property, does not have a price, and is oriented towards 'use value'… — Guy Standing Commons Copy Share Image
The World Bank and others have been converted to conditional cash transfers (CCT). These provide poor people with cash on condition they… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“Although reducing poverty, economic insecurity, malnutrition and ill-health should be the primary driving forces, an additional factor is the stress being placed… — Guy Standing Developing countries Copy Share Image
If I care for an elderly relative without payment, it is not work, is not counted in national income, and, as it… — Guy Standing Care Copy Share Image
In financial affairs and dealings with the state, those in the precariat are disadvantaged since they are usually less well-informed and have… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Since the crash of 2008 and during the neoliberal retrenchment known as austerity, many commentators have muttered that the left is dead,… — Guy Standing Democrats Copy Share Image
Corporations and financiers have used their growing influence to induce governments and international organizations to construct a global framework of institutions and… — Guy Standing Corporations Copy Share Image
A person looking after a frail former lover is not working and not contributing to economic growth. But if he or she… — Guy Standing Economic growth Copy Share Image
The precariat faces chronic uncertainty about what to do, about what incomes to expect, about state benefits that might be their due,… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Although the precariat does not consist simply of victims, since many in it challenge their parents' labouring ethic, its growth has been… — Guy Standing Faith Copy Share Image
“The spread of charity has largely reflected the manifold failings of means-tested social assistance, the unfairness of conditionality, the deliberate sanctions taken… — Guy Standing Failure Copy Share Image
“Ironically, opponents of basic income on the grounds that it would lead to a dismantling of the welfare state tend to support… — Guy Standing Leadership Copy Share Image
“Reformers must be able to pre-empt the expected jibes over lack of ‘reciprocity’, affordability, inducement to laziness, ‘something for nothing’ and cash… — Guy Standing Enjoying life Copy Share Image
“In October 2016, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said: The use of cash-based assistance has been a real game changer in… — Guy Standing Immigration Copy Share Image
“In Brazil, from 2008–14, a local NGO, ReCivitas Institute, gave a monthly basic income of about US$9 to 100 residents of Quatinga… — Guy Standing Funded Copy Share Image
“Cash transfer schemes that at present are overwhelmingly targeted at ‘the poor’ have the potential to prepare the way for basic income.2… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), which compared ‘food versus cash’ in four countries, found that in three of the four –… — Guy Standing Civil war Copy Share Image
“Leaving aside instrumental reasons for supporting a basic income, the thrill lies in the potential to advance full freedom and social justice,… — Guy Standing Adventure Copy Share Image
“The ‘republican’ variant is that freedom must mean non-domination. Stemming from Aristotle, republican freedom requires freedom from potential domination as well as… — Guy Standing Freedom Copy Share Image
“The importance of ethical governance, exemplified by the Norwegian Pension Fund, is highlighted by a deplorable UK government proposal in 2016 to… — Guy Standing Climate Copy Share Image
“The first basic income pilot in a developing country was implemented in the small Namibian village of Otjivero-Omitara in 2008–9, covering about… — Guy Standing Collective action Copy Share Image
“PROFESSOR’S TEASER Here is an interesting teaser from Harvard economics professor Greg Mankiw, in a blog post entitled ‘A quick note on… — Guy Standing Flat tax Copy Share Image
“In a 2016 book widely publicized in the US, Stern claimed that 58 per cent of all jobs would be automated eventually,… — Guy Standing Books Copy Share Image
“As of early 2017, GiveDirectly planned to mobilize $30 million for what it claims will be the largest basic income experiment ever.… — Guy Standing Devil worship Copy Share Image
“The social justice principles outlined in previous chapters provide a useful checklist for evaluating any policy. To recall, these are: The Security… — Guy Standing Justice Copy Share Image
“It was Ephialtes, in fact, who initiated democratic reforms that involved paying citizens for jury service. Shortly afterwards, he was assassinated (allegedly… — Guy Standing Ancient greek Copy Share Image
