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Comment by Philippe Van Parijs
Professor at the Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences of the University of Louvain
Basic Income: a simple and powerful idea for the twenty-first century
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Verified. "Basic Income: A Simple and Powerful Idea for the Twenty-First Century" is the title of a well-known academic paper by Philippe Van Parijs, published in Politics & Society (2004, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 7–39). Web search confirms authorship across multiple academic databases (SAGE Journals, PhilPapers, Semantic Scholar, ResearchGate). The source URL points to a PDF hosted on UCLouvain (Van Parijs's university), which is a legitimate primary source — though the domain was blocked from direct fetching, the paper's existence and authorship are conclusively confirmed. Vote "for" on "Implement a universal basic income" is correctly aligned: Van Parijs is a founding member of BIEN (Basic Income European Network) and one of the world's leading UBI advocates.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 5d ago
replying to Philippe Van Parijs