Recent Publications
Books
The Politics of Time: Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty (London: Penguin, 2023). Details
The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class - Special Covid-19 Edition (London: Bloomsbury, 2021)
The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea (London: Penguin, 2022). Details
Battling Eight Giants: Basic Income Now (London: Bloomsbury, 2020)
Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth (London: Penguin, 2019).
Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen (London: Penguin, 2017).
Details ● Translations ● Video
The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay (London: Biteback, hardback 2016; paperback 2017).
Basic Income: A Transformative Policy for India (with S. Davala, R. Jhabvala and S. Kapoor Mehta (London and New Delhi: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015).
A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014).
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The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011; Second edition 2014; Third edition [Revelations series] 2016).
A full list of books can be found here.
Reports
‘Recovery dividends’: An Emergency Basic Income for Palestine (Ramallah: Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS), February 2024). PDF
Feasibility Analysis of Basic Income for Women in Nepal, with Sarath Davala, Sujatha Srinivasan and Ram Narayan Shrestha, for UN Development Programme, Nepal and UN Women, Nepal (Chennai, India: LEAD (Leveraging Evidence for Access and Development) at Krea University, March 2023). PDF
A full list of reports can be found here. A full list of working papers can be found here.
Book Chapters
“Crear un fondo de capital común [Building a commons capital fund]” in B. Lain (ed.), Ni público ni privado, ¿sinon común? Usos, conceptos y comunidades en torno a los bienes comunes y la(s) propiedad(es) (Manresa, Spain: Bellaterra Edicions, 2023). English text
“The era of chronic uncertainty: A transformational opportunity”, in K. Arabadjieva et al. (eds), Transformative Ideas - Ensuring a Just Share of Progress for All (Brussels: European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), 2023), pp.105-120. Text
“Privatization, poverty and responsible leadership”, in M. Saks, Responsible Leadership Essential to the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (London and New York: Routledge, 2022), p.103.-110.
“Work and commoning: The past as the future”, in R. Hafner, R. Nilsson and M. Thörnkvist, We Work, We Share, We Care: Value Creation in an Era of Climate Disruption (Malmö: Media Evolution, 2022).
“Gender inequality in times of COVID-19 - give women cash”, in UNESCO, Basic Income - On Data and Policy (Paris: UNESCO Policy Papers 02, 2021). Text
“Revive the commons!’, in P. Allen, S.J. Konzelmann and J. Toporowski (eds), The Return of the State: Restructuring Britain for the Common Good (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Agenda Publishing, 2021).
A full list of book chapters can be found here.
Articles in Refereed Journals
“Basic income pilots: Uses, limitations and design principles”, Basic Income Studies, 16(1), June 2021, pp.75-99. PDF
“Basic income as common dividends: A rejoinder”, Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, 40(2), Winter 2019, pp.239-245.
A full list of journal articles can be found here.
Articles and Interviews (Selected)
“Has the education commons been enclosed” (article), Tribune, 26 January 2026. View
“The government must transform education” (article), Labour Hub, 20 January 2026. View
“Private finance is strangling British education” (article), Prospect, 16 January 2026. View
“Why European universities must not follow America’s” (article), Social Europe, 4 December 2025. View
“Guy Standing: How the system is failing the 99%”, Extrapolate with Rob Hof, 28 November 2025. Podcast
“Trump’s destruction of maritime law raises the risk of war” (article), Project Syndicate, 14 October 2025. View
“Common grievance” (interview about the commons and commoning), The Mint Magazine, 4 October 2025. View
“How financialisation is corroding education in the UK”, Open Democracy, 16 September 2025. View
“Trump risks a ‘gold rush’ on the high seas”, Prospect, 17 May 2025. View This article was reposted as “Trump tears up law of the sea and risks war’, 3 June 2025, by Ocean Rebellion linked to its own video on deep sea mining. View
“The left ignored the precariat - Trump didn’t. A warning from Guy Standing”, Lost Dollar Business Club, 3 May 2025. Podcast
“The left must embrace the precariat'“, Labour Hub, 10 April 2025. View A revised version of this blog was published in Other News, 22 April 2025. View
“Guy Standing: Universal basic … rights?”, Life Hertz, 25 March 2025. Podcast
“The road to neoliberalism: The 12,000 year war” with Yanis Varoufakis and others, Institute of Art and Ideas, 21 March 2025. Video
“Statistical hazards can plague the way we measure inequality” (letter), Financial Times, 13 January 2025. View
“Interview of Guy Standing re emergency basic income”, Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), 10 January 2025. PDF
“Can the commons be the left’s ethical ground” (blog), Labour Hub, 29 December 2024. View
“On the precariat with Guy Standing”, Where Shall We Meet?, 11 December 2024. Podcast
“‘It can’t happen here’ could happen here” (blog), Labour Hub, 7 December 2024. View
“It could happen here: why Trump 2.0 is a warning for Rachel Reeves” (article), Prospect, 16 November 2024. View
“Why privatization is fueling inequality”, Lost Dollar Business Club, 19 October 2024. Podcast
“How rentier capitalism is destroying democracy and equality”, Lost Dollar Business Club, 27 September 2024. Podcast
“The Labour government needs a cabinet minister for the sea” (blog), Labour Hub, 25 September 2024. View
“Fetichizing jobs”, The Political Orphanage, 19 September 2024. Podcast
“The deep green sea?” [A review article of The High Seas by Olive Heffernan and What the Wild Sea Can Be by Helen Scales], Times Literary Supplement, 23 and 30 August 2024.
“A US basic income experiment that wasn’t”, Basic Income News, 5 August 2024. PDF :: in German
“This is a pivotal moment for deep-sea mining” (letter), The Guardian, 1 August 2024. View
“How Labour should govern the seas” (article), Prospect, 30 July 2024. View
“Inequalities, the precariat, and development alternatives after neoliberalism: A conversation on economic justice with Guy Standing” (interview, in Thai), The101.World (Thailand), 16 July 2024. View
“‘Todos los viejos modelos de estado del bienestar desaparecieron hace tiempo.’ Entrevista a Guy Standing [‘All the old welfare state models are long gone.’ Interview with Guy Standing]”, Sin Permiso (Spain), 11 June 2024. View
“Die Reichsten sahnen ab [The richest reap the rewards]”, Welt-Sichten (Germany), No.3, 2024, pp.22-24.
Contributor to The Waste Land, a film by Chris Teerink illustrating the poem by T.S. Elliot, released April 2024. Trailer
“Why we need a ‘politics of time’” (article), Apolitical, 29 January 2024. View
“Land ownership and the commons”, It’s Bloody Complicated (Compass, UK), 28 November 2023. Podcast
“The politics of time: Gaining control in the age of uncertainty” (blog), The Forum Network (OECD), 22 November 2023. View
“Labour statistics were devised for an age of closed economies” (letter), Financial Times, 13 November 2023. View
“The politics of time: Gaining control in the age of uncertainty” (article), IAI News (Institute of Arts and Ideas), 9 November 2023. View
“Time bandits” (article), The Idler, 26 October 2023. View
“Economist Guy Standing: Asking people who have been hit by the economy to work harder and be stronger will only be counterproductive” (interview), Jiemian News (China), 24 October 2023. View
“The next great sea battle” (interview), The Daily Upside, 2 October 2023. View
“Basic income: Sufficient evidence, now politics”, BIEN News Bulletin, September-October 2023. Text
“The plunder of the commons”, The Political Orphanage, 20 September 2023. Podcast
“Europe must unite to stop deep-sea resource grab” (blog), Social Europe, 6 September 2023. View
“We must stop unjust deep sea resource grab” (blog), Ocean Rebellion, 22 August 2023. View
“Countries must unite to stave off the threat of a deep-sea resource grab” (article), Financial Times, 10 August 2023. View
“How the monarchy cashes in on our seabed” (article), Prospect, 19 July 2023. View
“Universal basic income with Professor Guy Standing (part 2) - how do we practically make it happen, and what will the impact be?”, The Morality of Everyday Things - Philosophy Podcast, 26 July 2023. Podcast
“Universal basic income with Professor Guy Standing - what is the moral justification for giving everyone free money”, The Morality of Everyday Things - Philosophy Podcast, 19 July 2023 . Podcast
“A revolution by stealth? Basic income experiments proliferate” (blog), International Public Policy Observatory, 19 July 2023. View
“David Lammy: please lead on deep sea mining” (article), Labour Hub, 17 July 2023. View
“The biggest gold rush in history is about to start in the deep sea - leaving devastation in its wake” (article), The Guardian, 7 July 2023. View
“Why are windfarms turning record profits for the Crown Estate?”, Science Weekly (The Guardian), 4 July 2023. Podcast
“Proud to be a commoner”, The Water We Swim In, 3 July 2023. Podcast
“Standing: The blue commons and the NIEO [New International Economic Order] at sea” (article), Progressive International, 3 July 2023. View
“Guy Standing: Protecting our shared wealth”, System Shift (Greenpeace), 25 May 2023. Podcast
“Heterodox approaches to the commons and the blue sea”, Matters - Public Policy, 11 May 2023. Podcast
“Will universal basic income become mainstream?” (panel discussion), The Stream - Al Jazeera, 11 April 2023. Video
“The importance of the blue commons and basic income”, Episode 8, The Value Exchange (Ethos), 8 April 2023. Video and podcast
“Britain needs a ministry of the sea” (article), apolitical, 4 April 2023. View
“Salmon farming: There should be a commons levy” (article), Ocean Rebellion, 2 April 2023. View
“The people’s platform: Special international edition’ (in which Guy Standing argues that resources from an IMF loan to Sri Lanka should be used to fund a basic income), Newsfirst Sri Lanka, 25 March 2023. Video
“Trick or treaty: The high seas agreement”, The Naked Scientists, 21 March 2023. Podcast
“Der Lebensstandard der Mehrheit sinkt [The living standard of the majority falls]” (interview), Tages-Anzeiger (Switzerland), 14 March 2023. View
“La renta básica ofrece resiliencia: ¿por qué los socialistas se oponen? [Basic income offers resilience: Why do the socialists oppose it?]” (article), El Periodico (Catalonia, Spain), 9 March 2023. View :: English version
“UN high seas treaty is a triumph, but it will need teeth to be effective” (letter), The Guardian, 6 March 2023. View
“Guy Standing - Can Labour de-commodify higher education? It has a minor problem” (blog), Progressive Economy Forum, 31 January 2023. View
“Arm trotz Arbeit - Die Krise der Mittelschicht [Poor despite work: The crisis of the middle class]”, participation in documentary for ARTEde, 10 January 2023. Video
A fuller list of articles and interviews can be found here and more podcasts and videos here.