Associate Professor (Professor Agregat), Department of Sociology. Research lines: Social and Political Theory, History of Thought, Political Economy, Republicanism, Socialism, Basic Income, Democracy, Scottish Enlightenment. He was Secretary of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) and is now a member of its International Advisory Board in addition to being Vice-President of the Spanish Basic Income Network (Red Renta Básica). He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the international political review SinPermiso and he works with the Barcelona-based Observatory for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (DESC).
Contact: dcasassas@ub.edu; phone: (+34) 93 402 09 91; @davidcasassas
Further information: www.davidcasassas.com; ORCID
Featured publications
Casassas, D. (2020). Poder de negociación y distribución social de capacidades para la nacionalización de la vida económica: ¿por qué la renta básica es un proyecto democratizador? Daimon. Revista Internacional de Filosofía, 81, 215-229.
Casassas, D.; Martínez-Cava, J.; Raventós, D. (2020). Socialismo y renta básica. Razones republicanes de la propuesta. Revista Internacional de Pensamiento Político, 15, 37-56.
Casassas, D. (2018). Libertad incondicional. La renta básica en la revolución democràtica. Barcelona: Paidós.
Casassas, D; De Wispelaere, J. (2016). Republicanism and the political economy of democracy. European Journal of Social Theory, 19 (2), 283-300.
Casassas, D. (2013). Adam Smith’s Republican Moment: Lessons for Today’s Emancipatory Thought. Economic Thought. History, Philosophy, and Methodology, 2 (2), 1-19.