Louise Haagh

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Louise Haagh (born 23 June 1967) is an academic expert on economic security, and social advocate who is best known for her leading role in the basic income movement. She is Professor of Politics at the University of York.{{Cite web|title=Haagh, Louise - Politics, University of York|url=https://www.york.ac.uk/politics/people/academicstaff/louise-haagh/|access-date=2021-06-14|website=www.york.ac.uk|language=en}} She was born and grew up in Denmark, spent several years in Latin America and later settled in Britain, and is a dual Danish-British citizen.{{Cite web|title=Biography {{!}} Louise Haagh|url=https://louisehaagh.net/biography/|access-date=2021-06-14|language=en-GB}} She is co-editor-in-chief of the academic journal [https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/BIS/html Basic Income Studies]. Since 2011, she has been Co-Chair, chair, and now Chair Emeritus of the Basic Income Earth Network.{{Cite web|last=Torry|first=Malcolm|title=Thank you to Louise Haagh {{!}} BIEN — Basic Income Earth Network|date=15 September 2020 |url=https://basicincome.org/news/2020/09/thank-you-to-louise-haagh/|access-date=2021-06-14|language=en-US}} She is a former trustee and now patron of the Citizens’ Income Trust in the UK and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.{{Cite web|last=RSA|first=The|date=2017-04-24|title=Basic Income should be seen as a democratic right|url=https://medium.com/rsa-journal/basic-income-should-be-seen-as-a-democratic-right-b249ab6078b0|access-date=2021-06-14|website=Medium|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://rsaradio.simplecast.com/episodes/work-shift-is-basic-income-the-right-response-to-the-new-world-of-work-9ba28e02|access-date=2021-06-14|website=rsaradio.simplecast.com}}

Her critical scholarship on basic income and democratization links both the case and scope for Basic Income to democratic development of the economy as a whole.{{Cite web|last=Haagh|first=Louise|date=2017-03-02|title=Basic Income's Radical Role – Louise Haagh|url=https://socialeurope.eu/basic-incomes-radical-role|access-date=2021-06-14|website=Social Europe|language=en-GB}} She advocates a humanist democratic approach,{{Cite journal|last=Haagh|first=Louise|date=2017-06-12|title=Basic income as a pivoting reform|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0125|journal=Nature Human Behaviour|language=en|volume=1|issue=7|pages=1–3|doi=10.1038/s41562-017-0125|s2cid=35069295|issn=2397-3374}} and is known for her critique of a redistributive defense tied to global market expansion,{{Cite web|date=2018-07-30|title=One Question Universal Basic Income|url=http://stateofnatureblog.com/one-question-universal-basic-income/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180826072334/http://stateofnatureblog.com/one-question-universal-basic-income/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=26 August 2018|access-date=2021-06-14|website=state of nature|language=en-GB}} both rooted in her comparative work on human economy justice and governing.{{Cite journal|last=Haagh|first=Louise|date=2020-12-01|title=Rethinking Democratic Theories of Justice in the Economy after COVID-19|url=https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/democratic-theory/7/2/dt070214.xml|journal=Democratic Theory|language=en-US|volume=7|issue=2|pages=110–123|doi=10.3167/dt.2020.070214|issn=2332-8894|doi-access=|s2cid=225017653 }}

Her work looks at problems relating to the global and national politics of development, economic and democratic development and humanist justice.{{Cite journal|last=Haagh|first=Louise|date=2019-01-01|title=Public state ownership within varieties of capitalism: regulatory foundations for welfare and freedom|url=https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJPP.2019.099056|journal=International Journal of Public Policy|volume=15|issue=1–2|pages=153–186|doi=10.1504/IJPP.2019.099056|s2cid=159325533 |issn=1740-0600}} She has designed and carried out surveys and comparative research on the role of social and economic institutions – in particular employment institutions - in human motivation and economic development in a range of middle and high income countries.{{Cite journal|last=Haagh|first=Louise|date=2002-03-01|title=The Emperor's new clothes: Labor reform and social democratization in Chile|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02686339|journal=Studies in Comparative International Development|language=en|volume=37|issue=1|pages=86–115|doi=10.1007/BF02686339|s2cid=153940201|issn=1936-6167}}

Her 2019 book, The Case for Universal Basic Income was published by Polity Books.{{Cite book|last=Haagh|first=Louise|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K8-kDwAAQBAJ|title=The Case for Universal Basic Income|date=2019-07-20|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-5095-2299-6|language=en}} The book was showcased in the Stanford Social Innovation Review.{{Cite web|title=Basic Income and Development Goals (SSIR)|url=https://ssir.org/books/excerpts/entry/basic_income_and_development_goals|access-date=2021-06-14|website=ssir.org|language=en-us}} Haagh has acted as an expert to international bodies, including the Council of Europe and the World Health Organization. She has appeared in the BBC,{{Cite web|title=BBC World Service - In the Balance, Universal Basic Income: Has its Time Come?|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04g1dm1|access-date=2021-06-14|website=BBC|language=en-GB}}{{Cite web|title=BBC Radio 4 - Money Box, Universal Basic Income - Can it work?|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002c2q|access-date=2021-06-14|website=BBC|language=en-GB}} La Repubblica,{{Cite web|date=2017-11-29|title=Reddito di base: ecco i conti di scettici e radicali|url=https://www.repubblica.it/venerdi/2017/11/29/news/reddito_di_base_ecco_i_conti_di_scettici_e_radicali-300943216/|access-date=2021-06-14|website=la Repubblica|language=it}} El País,{{Cite web|last=Fariza|first=Ignacio|date=2020-04-06|title=La renta básica deja de ser una utopía|url=https://elpais.com/economia/2020-04-06/la-renta-basica-deja-de-ser-una-utopia.html|access-date=2021-06-14|website=EL PAÍS|language=es}} and the New Scientist.{{Cite web|last=Hodson|first=Hal|title=What happens if we pay everyone just to live?|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23030791-100-what-happens-if-we-pay-everyone-just-to-live/|access-date=2021-06-14|website=New Scientist|language=en-US}}