Welfare for Markets - A Global History of Basic Income
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In this episode, Robin Mills speaks with Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora Vargas about their new book Welfare for Markets - A Global History of Basic Income (UCP, 2023). In their book, Jäger and Vargas trace the history of basic income from its rise in American and British policy debates following periods of economic and political crisis to its modern popularity among ‘techno-populists’ in Silicon Valley. They describe how the idea gained traction in the United States and Europe in the 1960s as a market-friendly alternative to the postwar welfare state and how interest in the policy has grown in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and again after the COVID-19 crisis.
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