This event was part of KWI\u2019s annual theme \u201eMore or Less\u201c and took place on 18 January 2024. Moderator: Danilo Scholz<\/p>\n
ABOUT THE EVENT
\nThe idea of a government paying its citizens to keep them out of poverty \u2013 now known as basic income \u2013 is hardly new. Often dated as far back as ancient Rome, basic income\u2019s modern conception truly emerged in the late nineteenth century. Yet as one of today\u2019s most controversial proposals, it draws supporters from across the political spectrum. In their book Welfare for Markets. A Global History of Basic Income, J\u00e4ger and Zamora trace basic income from its rise in American and British policy debates following periods of economic tumult to its modern relationship with techno-populist figures in Silicon Valley. They chronicle how the idea first arose in the United States and Europe as a market-friendly alternative to the post-war welfare state and how interest in the policy has grown in the wake of the 2008 credit crisis and COVID-19 crash.<\/p>\n
ANTON J\u00c4GER is a lecturer at University College, Oxford. With Daniel Zamora, he is the co-author of Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income (2023). He writes for outlets such as the The Guardian, The New York Times, Jacobin, and New Left Review.<\/p>\n
DANIEL ZAMORA is a professor of sociology at the Free University of Brussels. He is the co-author of The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution (Verso, 2021) with Mitchell Dean and Welfare for Markets with Anton J\u00e4ger (UCP, 2023).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12671,"template":"","class_list":["post-14132","video","type-video","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video\/14132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/video"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}