Philippe Van Parijs is a professor emeritus at the University of Louvain, where he was Hoover chair of economic and social ethics, and he chairs the advisory board of the Basic Income Earth Network. He is the author of numerous books including Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy (with Yannick Vanderborght) and What’s Wrong With a Free Lunch?
In an interview with Jacobin, the political philosopher Philippe Van Parijs discusses the challenges of achieving global justice today, from winning an emancipatory basic income to accommodating mass migration to rich countries.