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Philippe Van Parijs 

University of Louvain, Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics

University of Louvain, Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics

Philippe Van Parijs was the founding director of the University of Louvain’s Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics from 1991 to 2016, and a regular visiting professor at Harvard University from 2004 to 2008 and at the University of Oxford from 2011 to 2015. He is currently a guest professor at the Universities of Louvain and Leuven and a Robert Schuman Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence).

His books include Evolutionary Explanation in the Social Sciences (Rowman & Littlefield, 1981), Marxism Recycled (Cambridge U.P., 1993), Real Freedom for All (Oxford U.P. 1995), What’s Wrong with a Free Lunch? (Beacon Press, 2001), Just Democracy. The Rawls-Machiavelli Programme (ECPR 2011), Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World (Oxford U.P. 2011) and Basic Income. A radical proposal for a free society and a sane economy (Harvard U.P. 2017, with Y. Vanderborght).