Louise Haagh

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Louise Haagh (born 23 June 1967) is an academic expert on economic security, and social advocate who is best known for her leading role in the basic income movement. She is Professor of Politics at the University of York. [1] She was born and grew up in Denmark, spent several years in Latin America and later settled in Britain, and is a dual Danish-British citizen. [2] She is co-editor-in-chief of the academic journal Basic Income Studies . Since 2011, she has been Co-Chair, chair, and now Chair Emeritus of the Basic Income Earth Network. [3] She is a former trustee and now patron of the Citizens’ Income Trust in the UK and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. [4] [5]

Her critical scholarship on basic income and democratization links both the case and scope for Basic Income to democratic development of the economy as a whole. [6] She advocates a humanist democratic approach, [7] and is known for her critique of a redistributive defense tied to global market expansion, [8] both rooted in her comparative work on human economy justice and governing. [9]

Her work looks at problems relating to the global and national politics of development, economic and democratic development and humanist justice. [10] She has designed and carried out surveys and comparative research on the role of social and economic institutions – in particular employment institutions - in human motivation and economic development in a range of middle and high income countries. [11]

Her 2019 book, The Case for Universal Basic Income was published by Polity Books. [12] The book was showcased in the Stanford Social Innovation Review . [13] Haagh has acted as an expert to international bodies, including the Council of Europe and the World Health Organization. She has appeared in the BBC, [14] [15] La Repubblica , [16] El País , [17] and the New Scientist . [18]

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  1. ↑ "Haagh, Louise - Politics, University of York". www.york.ac.uk. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  2. ↑ "Biography | Louise Haagh" . Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  3. ↑ Torry, Malcolm (15 September 2020). "Thank you to Louise Haagh | BIEN — Basic Income Earth Network" . Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  4. ↑ RSA, The (24 April 2017). "Basic Income should be seen as a democratic right". Medium. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  5. ↑ rsaradio.simplecast.com https://rsaradio.simplecast.com/episodes/work-shift-is-basic-income-the-right-response-to-the-new-world-of-work-9ba28e02 . Retrieved 14 June 2021.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ↑ Haagh, Louise (2 March 2017). "Basic Income's Radical Role – Louise Haagh". Social Europe. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  7. ↑ Haagh, Louise (12 June 2017). "Basic income as a pivoting reform". Nature Human Behaviour. 1 (7): 1–3. doi:10.1038/s41562-017-0125. ISSN   2397-3374. S2CID   35069295.
  8. ↑ "One Question Universal Basic Income". state of nature. 30 July 2018. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  9. ↑ Haagh, Louise (1 December 2020). "Rethinking Democratic Theories of Justice in the Economy after COVID-19". Democratic Theory. 7 (2): 110–123. doi:10.3167/dt.2020.070214. ISSN   2332-8894. S2CID   225017653.
  10. ↑ Haagh, Louise (1 January 2019). "Public state ownership within varieties of capitalism: regulatory foundations for welfare and freedom". International Journal of Public Policy. 15 (1–2): 153–186. doi:10.1504/IJPP.2019.099056. ISSN   1740-0600. S2CID   159325533.
  11. ↑ Haagh, Louise (1 March 2002). "The Emperor's new clothes: Labor reform and social democratization in Chile". Studies in Comparative International Development. 37 (1): 86–115. doi:10.1007/BF02686339. ISSN   1936-6167. S2CID   153940201.
  12. ↑ Haagh, Louise (20 July 2019). The Case for Universal Basic Income. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN   978-1-5095-2299-6.
  13. ↑ "Basic Income and Development Goals (SSIR)". ssir.org. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  14. ↑ "BBC World Service - In the Balance, Universal Basic Income: Has its Time Come?". BBC. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  15. ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - Money Box, Universal Basic Income - Can it work?". BBC. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  16. ↑ "Reddito di base: ecco i conti di scettici e radicali". la Repubblica (in Italian). 29 November 2017. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  17. ↑ Fariza, Ignacio (6 April 2020). "La renta básica deja de ser una utopía". EL PAÍS (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  18. ↑ Hodson, Hal. "What happens if we pay everyone just to live?". New Scientist. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
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