In an interview with Alain Bloëdt, Philippe Van Parijs explains the need for a universal income to go alongside the technological revolution.
Philippe Van Parijs is professor at the University of Louvain and Leuven and associate member of Nuffield College, at Oxford University. His books include Real Freedom for All. What (if anything) can justify capitalism? (Oxford UP, 1995) and Basic Income. A radical proposal for a free society and a sane economy (Harvard UP, forthcoming 2017, with Yannick Vanderborght).
What is there in basic income that can trigger the suspicion of social democrats and what is there is in it that should prompt its enthusiasm?