![]() ![]() ![]() In Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income, Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora seek to explain how such an ideologically diverse crew could come to share this particular vision of the welfare state. Although they share practically nothing when it comes to their political commitments, they have all supported the establishment of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) - cash transfers, or a state-provided wage regardless of employment status. The punch line may not be funny exactly, but it is revealing. “What exactly do David Graeber, Milton Friedman, Charles Murray, Yannis Varoufakis, and Mark Zuckerberg have in common?” It sounds like the setup to a bad joke. ![]() Review of Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income by Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora (University of Chicago Press, 2023). ![]()
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