Gonçalo Marcelo (PhD Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) is a Postdoctoral researcher funded by FCT (SFRH/BPD/102949/2014) at CECH, Universidade de Coimbra, where he develops a project in partnership with Columbia University in the City of New York, and Católica Porto Business School, where he is also an invited Lecturer. Previously, he was a visiting scholar at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Fonds Ricoeur and Columbia University. He has written on topics such as recognition theory, critical theory, the economic crisis, hermeneutics, and the philosophies of Paul Ricoeur and Axel Honneth.
Currently, he is working on several essays on the critique of reason, and a book on the humanities. He also co-wrote, with Roberto Merrill, Sara Bizarro and Jorge Pinto, a book on Basic Income: Rendimento Básico Incondicional: uma defesa da liberdade, to be published in 2018. He is interested on Universal Basic Income as a way to reinforce the Welfare State, tackle poverty and inequality, and as a way to answer the challenge raised by the fourth industrial revolution and technological unemployment.
Mainstream media publications or interviews
2017: Gonçalo Marcelo sobre o Rendimento Básico Incondicional. In É Apenas Fumaça 26-10-2017. http://apenasfumaca.pt/goncalo-marcelo-sobre-o-rendimento-basico-incondicional/
2017: Rendimento Básico Incondicional. Uma solução para Portugal? (Interview for RTP, portuguese national television). https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/economia/rendimento-basico-incondicional-uma-solucao-para-portugalt_v1030514
2017: Rendimento Básico Incondicional liberta pessoas para "escolherem trabalhar ou não trabalhar". In Rádio Renascença 27-09-2017. http://rr.sapo.pt/noticia/94364/rendimento_basico_incondicional_permitiria_libertar_as_pessoas_para_escolherem_trabalhar_ou_nao_trabalhar
2017: (with Roberto Merrill). O RBI pode salvar o Estado Social. In Observador 05-11-2017. http://observador.pt/opiniao/o-rbi-pode-salvar-o-estado-social/
2017: (with Roberto Merrill and Sara Bizarro). Rendimento Básico Incondicional. Mais Liberdade e Menos Exploração (uma resposta a Daniel Oliveira). In Observador 21-01-2017. http://observador.pt/opiniao/rendimento-basico-incondicional-mais-liberdade-e-menos-exploracao-uma-resposta-a-daniel-oliveira/
2016: (with Marisa Tavares). Rendimento Básico Inevitável? In Público 17-06-2016. https://www.publico.pt/2016/06/17/sociedade/opiniao/rendimento-basico-inevitavel-1735322
Organization of events on Basic Income
2017: Member of the Organizing Committee of the 17th Bien Congress, Implementing a Basic Income. Portuguese Assembly of the Republic / ISEG, Lisbon, 25-27/09/2017. http://rendimentobasico.pt/17th-bien-congress/#
2016: Organization of "Rendimento Básico Incondicional", first session of the Cycle of Conferences "Ética, Economia e Sociedade". Católica Porto Business School, Porto, 02-06-2016. http://www.porto.ucp.pt/pt/central-eventos/ciclo-conferencias-etica-economia-e-sociedade-rendimento-basico-incondicional
Contact: goncalomarcelo@gmail.com