Philippe Van Parijs

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Philippe Van Parijs
Born	Philippe Van Parijs (1951-05-23) 23 May 1951 (age 72) Brussels, Belgium
Nationality	Belgian
Academic background
Alma mater	UC Berkeley Bielefeld University Oxford University Université catholique de Louvain Saint-Louis University, Brussels
Influences	Karl Marx, John Rawls
Academic work
Era	20th-century philosophy, 21st-century philosophy
School or tradition	Analytical Marxism Left-libertarianism[1]
Main interests	Political philosophy, political economy, distributive justice
Notable ideas	Universal basic income, linguistic justice, language tax, real freedom

Philippe Van Parijs (French: [filip vɑ̃ paʁɛjs]; born 23 May 1951) is a Belgian political philosopher and political economist, best known as a proponent and main defender of the concept of an unconditional basic income^[2] and for the first systematic treatment of linguistic justice.^[3]

In 2020, he was listed by Prospect as the eighth-greatest thinker for the COVID-19 era, with the magazine writing, "Today’s young UBI enthusiasts draw on the books and tap the networks of this Belgian polymath, who championed it before it was fashionable. For decades, he has warned that our proclaimed freedoms to start businesses or raise children count for nothing without the real freedom that comes with a basic income".^[4]