Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Public Law at the Universitat de Girona and Adviser of the Catalan basic income pilot project. He has been research fellow at the University of Minho (2019-21), the Institut d’Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de Barcelona (2017-19) and affiliate professor at the Department of Sociology of the University of Barcelona (2016-22). Predoctoral researcher at the Chair Hoover d’éthique économique et sociale (UCL, 2017), the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (University of Brighton, 2015), and the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy (Concordia University, 2014). He has taught at the Universidad Nacional de Ecuador, the University of Leeds, McGill University, and ELISAVA-UPF. He is a member of the Basic Income Earth Network and of the Spanish Basic Income Network. Within the intersections of political philosophy, political economy and social policies, he is working on republicanism, democracy, property rights, and basic income.
Contact: bru.lain@ub.edu
Further information: ORCID, academia.edu
Featured publications
Laín, B. & Julià, A. (2022). Why do poor people not take up benefits? Evidences from the Barcelona’s B-MINCOME experiment. Journal of Social Policy (in press).
Laín, B. (2022). Between Epistemic Necessity and Political Utility: The Role of Basic Income Experiments. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 41(2), 633–639.
Laín, B. (2020). “Ni absoluta, ni exclusiva. Una reconstrucción de la concepción de la propiedad republicano-jeffersoniana”, Daimon Revista Internacional De Filosofia, 81, 99-114.
Laín, B. (2020). “Del derecho natural al pacto fiduciario: gobierno y propiedad en la economía política republicana”, Isegoría. Revista de Filosofía Moral y Política, 62: 9-34.
Laín, B. (ed.) (2023, in press). Ni público, ni privado ¿sino común? Usos, conceptos y comunidades alrededor de los bienes comunes, Barcelona: Bellaterra Ediciones.
Merrill, R., Neves, C., & Laín, B. (2021). The Political Philosophy and Epistemology of Basic Income Experiments, Cham. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.