Jan Pieter Kuiper (29 May 1922,

Norg Norg is a village in the northeastern Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Noordenveld, Drenthe. It used to be an independent municipality until 1998. Norg is home to two windmills. History Norg is an ''Angerdorf, esdorp'' which ...

– 13 September 1985,

Haarzuilens Haarzuilens is a village in the Netherlands, Dutch province of Utrecht (province), Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Utrecht, and lies about 12 km west from the city centre of Utrecht. It was a separate municipality until 1954, when ...

) was a professor of

social medicine Social medicine is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on the profound interplay between socio-economic factors and individual health outcomes. Rooted in the challenges of the Industrial Revolution, it seeks to: # Understand how specific soci ...

at the Protestant Free University of Amsterdam. He worked from 1948 to 1958 as a mission doctor on Sumba, Indonesia, for the Dutch Reformed Church. In 1968 he investigated the level of satisfaction at social medicine workers. Some years before that he promoted on the subject company doctors and working humans. He became professor in 1972. In 1975, Kuiper played a major role in the promotion of the idea of

unconditional basic income Universal basic income (UBI) is a social welfare proposal in which all citizens of a given population regularly receive a minimum income in the form of an unconditional transfer payment, i.e., without a means test or need to perform work. In ...

in the Netherlands, after a conference where he gave a passionate and controversial speech. Later on he gave a series of lecture on the need to ‘disconnect productive labour and income’.KUIPER, J.P. (1976), ‘Arbeid en inkomen : twee plichten en twee rechten’, Sociaal Maandblad Arbeid, 501-512 His ideas influenced Christian-leftists and the ecologist movement.

References

1922 births 1985 deaths 20th-century Dutch physicians People from Noordenveld University of Groningen alumni University of Amsterdam alumni Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Universal basic income activists {{Netherlands-bio-stub