# Guy Standing

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Plunder of the Commons: a manifesto for sharing public wealth

Contributor(s): Professor Guy Standing, Caroline Lucas, David Lammy MP

Breakfast Show Podcast 09-03-2026: Rising UK Unemployment & Why are marriages failing?

Latest News/Headlines | Traffic | Weather | Sports Topic I: Rising UK Unemployment: A Moral & Social Test Through an Islamic Lens Topic II: Why are marriages failing? Understanding the Breakdown of the Family Systems Presenter(s):
Daniyal Zia Bilal Ahmed Guest(s): 01 Guy Standing 02 Andrew Oswa…

Reviving the Education Commons and Speaking Truth to Power. A conversation with Guy Standing

Guy Standing is an economist whose new book Human Capital: The Tragedy of the Education Commons has much to say about a key theme of the festival: bildung.  His thoughts on the corruption of education by policies that have lost touch with the public good are a provocative introduction to the kind o…

A Whole Other Story. A conversation on the shape of Realisation 2026.

The Realisation Festival is a soulful response to the crises of our times. So, with two months to go before this year’s gathering, Nick Shaftesbury, Pippa Evans and Ed Haddon sat down with Mark Vernon to explore the shape of the programme this year.  Why does this space to share the complexities of…

Guy Standing on big finance infiltrating education

Guy Standing is a British labour economist best known for coining the term "precariat" to describe the growing global class of people living with unstable employment, mounting debt, and chronic insecurity. Standing’s latest book, Human Capital, explores how the education system has been corrupted a…

The Privatization of Education and Plunder of Common Goods

What happens when basic public goods become a private, paid for service, education becomes a profit-turning treadmill and meanwhile millions live in chronic insecurity? In this episode Max and Grazielle interview renowned economist Guy Standing, exploring his argument that the privatization of publ…

Money for Nothing?

As Andy Burnham vows to tackle the cost of living, could a Universal Basic Income be part of his reset of the economy? He’s supported pilots of the scheme, which would give every citizen a living wage, whatever they do or don’t do. Could it end financial insecurity, and boost the economy? Or is it …

What’s in a university ranking? How the US and UK still dominate

China is a budding superpower but the US and UK still dominate global university charts, even those by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. We hear from economist Guy Standing, plus our panel of Alex von Tunzelmann and Mark Earls weigh in on why autocrats still send their kids to Harvard. See omnystudio.c…

Mayday. Basic Income: Building resilience

Could Basic Income help us survive the next crisis? In this episode, we speak to Guy Standing, co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network, who has been advocating for basic income since the eighties. Sharing insights from the ground is Angeline Matereke from Save the Children, who oversees cash t…

Do we deserve a social dividend?

Why should a tiny minority receive the rewards from resources, knowledge and institutions that are ultimately part of our common inheritance? In this podcast, I talk to Professor Guy Standing, best known for developing the idea of the precariat and for his longstanding advocacy of universal basic …