Source: The Daily Economy
by Art Carden
“If you pay attention to public policy discussions, you know that people have proposed a Basic Income Guarantee or a Universal Basic Income as one option among many to deal with technological unemployment or the distributional consequences of new technologies like generative AI. You might not know that the idea of a Basic Income is nothing new, and it has a long and interesting history. That’s what the historian Anton Jäger and the historical sociologist Daniel Zamora explore in Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income.” (07/02/25)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/cash-not-control-a-global-history-of-basic-income/