Martin Brabec

Martin Brabec, Ph.D., is a member of the Centre of Global Studies in the Institute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He focuses on social and political justice and unconditional basic income in the global context, mainly from the perspective of political philosophy. He is a co-author of the book: Van Parijs, P., Hrubec, M., Brabec, M., et al., Universal Basic Income. The Right to Laziness or to Survival? He is engaged not only in theoretical research but also in efforts to apply it in practice in Czech civil society. In 2013–14, he was active in the European Citizens’ Initiative for Unconditional Basic Income in the Czech Republic, and in 2020–21, he is a coordinator in a similar European initiative called Start Unconditional Basic Income.

(Sept. 2020)