BIA - Book Club - Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income
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For our third 2026 book club, we’ll be reading Welfare for Markets by Anton Jager and Daniel Zamora Vargas, a sharp and sometimes challenging history of basic income as an idea.
Rather than treating UBI as a purely progressive project, this book traces how basic income has been taken up across very different political traditions, including neoliberal and market-focused ones. It asks hard questions about who supports UBI, why, and what kinds of economic systems it might ultimately serve.
This is a great book for stretching our thinking, testing assumptions, and having a more critical conversation about strategy, power, and political context. Come along ready to debate, disagree, and dig into the uncomfortable bits together.