Anton Jäger is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Catholic University of Leuven. He has published widely on populism, basic income, and the contemporary crisis of democracy. Daniel Zamora Vargas is assistant professor of sociology at the Free University of Brussels. He is coauthor of The Last Man Takes LSD.

• Introduction: Welfare without the Welfare StateChapter 1 An Anti-MythologyChapter 2 Milton Friedman’s Negative Income Tax and the Monetization of PovertyChapter 3 Cash Triumphs: America after the New Deal OrderChapter 4 The Politics of Postwork in Postwar EuropeChapter 5 Rethinking Global Development at the End of HistoryEpilogue: Basic Income in the Technopopulist AgeAcknowledgmentsNotesArchives ConsultedIndex

"The strengths of Jäger and Zamora’s historical approach are indisputable. They amply demonstrate what others have only hinted at—the depths of the political-economic and cultural shifts that led to the ascendence of market fundamentalism in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Their history is both broad and deep. Certainly it will become the authoritative account of the origins of UBI."