Guy Standing

Guy Maxwell Standing
Standing at the BIEN Congress in 2012
Born (1948-02-09) 9 February 1948 (age 78)
London, England
NationalityBritish
InstitutionBasic Income Earth Network (BIEN)
and School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
FieldUnconditional basic income and deliberative democracy
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (PhD)
University of Illinois (MA)
University of Sussex (BA)
ContributionsTheory of the precariat
AwardsFellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS)

Guy Maxwell Standing (born 9 February 1948) is a British professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and helped start Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN).

Standing has written about labour economics, unemployment, basic income and democracy. He wrote the book The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class in 2011.

Honors

Internet Fun

Guy Standing's replacement photo.
The image that replaced the other, showing Guy Standing probably standing. This was taken in Vienna.

Guy Standing's Wikipedia page is interesting because of the photo included. There is an argument about what the caption for the photo should be. The photo shows Guy Standing in a chair, sitting. On the English version of Wikipedia, a user put the title as "Guy Sitting at the 2012 BIEN Congress" to be funny. That was changed to the more correct "Standing at the 2012 BIEN Congress" by another user. Some users would spend time changing it to "Standing Sitting at the 2012 BIEN Congress", while others would change it back, including some Wikipedia Administrators. Both captions are informatively correct, but "Standing Sitting at the 2012 BIEN Congress" was supposedly 'too funny' for Wikipedia. On the English version of the page, the photo featured was changed to one that showed Guy Standing, likely standing.

References

  1. ↑ "Standing, Guy". Library of Congress. Retrieved 4 July 2014. found: His Population mobility and productive relations, 1984: CIP t.p. (Guy Standing) data sheet (b. 2/9/48)
  2. ↑ "Professor Guy Standing, Department of Development Studies". School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "About BIEN". Archived from the original on 2012-10-25.
  4. ↑ Standing, Guy (27 January 2012). "The precariat: why it needs deliberative democracy". OpenDemocracy. Archived from the original on 25 June 2014. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  5. ↑ Standing, Guy (2011). The precariat. City: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-84966-455-4.
  6. ↑ "Fellows". Academy of Social Sciences. Archived from the original on 28 May 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  7. ↑ "Guy Standing (economist): Revision history - Wikipedia". en.wikipedia.org. Retrieved 2026-10-08.
  8. ↑ "Guy Standing (economist)", Wikipedia, 2026-10-04, retrieved 2026-10-08

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