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Guy Standing

1948 - Today

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Guy Standing (born 9 February 1948) is a British labour economist. He is a professor of development studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN). Standing has written widely in the areas of labour economics, labour market policy, unemployment, labour market flexibility, structural adjustment policies and social protection. He created the term precariat to describe an emerging class of workers who are harmed by low wages and poor job security as a consequence of globalisation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Guy Standing is the 241st most popular economist (up from 390th in 2019). (up from 4,831st in 2019)

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Among economists, Guy Standing ranks 241 out of 414. Before him are Colin Clark, Olivier Blanchard, Chester Barnard, Arthur Melvin Okun, Johann Karl Rodbertus, and Grigory Yavlinsky. After him are Leszek Balcerowicz, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, Ellen Swallow Richards, Harold Laski, Adam Müller, and Andreas Kaplan.

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Among people born in 1948, Guy Standing ranks 325. Before him are Harald Ertl, Muhammad Zaidan, Luciano Re Cecconi, Jackson Browne, Josef Hickersberger, and Mercedes Ruehl. After him are Koloman Gögh, Michael Berryman, Lojze Peterle, Peter James, Yaakov Litzman, and Enrique Vila-Matas.

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