Karl Widerquist

Karl Widerquist, a Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University-Qatar, specializes in distributive justice: the ethics of who has what. He holds a doctorate in normative political theory from Oxford University) and one in economics from the City University of New York 1996. He writes on philosophy, politics, economics, anthropology, and the philosophy of social science. He has published dozens of scholarly articles and eleven books including "Universal Basic Income," "the Problem of Property," "the Prehistory of Private Property," "Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy," and "Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income." He was a founding editor of the journal "Basic Income Studies," co-founder of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network, and co-chair of the Basic Income Earth Network. "The Atlantic Monthly" called him “a leader of the worldwide Basic Income movement.”

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Email: Karl at widerquist dot com

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