Welfare for Markets
Jager, Anton / Zamora Vargas, Daniel A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state's policy-in-waiting From Thomas More to Thomas Paine, Milton Friedman to Mark Zuckerberg, centuries of public figures have hailed the power of government payments as a tool for advancing social justice. For some advocates, basic income is a moral imperative, a policy with potential to upend structural inequalities, for others, it's a market-friendly version of the welfare state that doesn't ...