Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income (The Life of Ideas)

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A Pareto optimal outcome is one where no individual can be made better off without making another individual worse off. show an unfit animal for sale - this includes animals that are diseased, ill, injured, lame, deformed or emaciated, or animals likely to give birth If you import, export or transit cattle, sheep, pigs, goats or unregistered horses you must have both: Later chapters of Welfare for Markets continue to dissect the theory of UBI as it fluctuated over the course of the Reagan, Clinton, Bush and Obama years. They show how the European version of the concept was far different, centering on the Netherlands as their case study. The book also shows how international development thinking—long dominated by the neoliberal Washington Consensus that is itself an expansion of the ‘50s era (and highly paternalist) modernization theory—has shifted to an embrace of UBI as a possible solution for the Global South. This is particularly useful in 2023, as it is now obvious to every serious person that pushing for the South to emulate the North and develop a fossil fuel-driven industrial economy would be suicidal for humanity at large. We must have a way for the Global South to respond to and overcome searing poverty that does not rely on releasing carbon or clear cutting forests: enter UBI and its flexible delivery of welfare without the welfare state.

Basic income here was both an index of retreat-the demise of an older social statism-and an accelerant of entrenchment. The proposal flourished in the wake of a double disorganization: the weakening of a dense union movement as a countervailing power and the dwindling of mass parties tied to a hinterland of civil society organization. In its place came a new 'technopopulist' politics, focusing on public relations and media outreach, in which community activists spoke for a silent constituency as 'advocates without members.' Unlike older interest groups, these would principally voice their welfare demands in the abstract: increased cash rather than specific resource allocation." 169 Removed out of date legislation references and added link to the on-farm animal welfare species specific codes of practice. In the developing world, the turn to cash transfer policies (from child support to microloans) as a strategy, which the authors consider to be related to basic income, coincides quite closely with the breakdown of earlier developmentalist economic strategies, and the neoliberal regime enforced by imperialist states, through the IMF and international debt. Instead of the potential for development to threaten the interests of imperialist countries, ‘a narrower understanding of poverty alleviation and basic needs would be promoted, brushing aside the problem of global inequality and the division of labour’ (p.144).

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There] are vital insights that can be gleaned from Welfare for Markets, which deftly surveys many of the philosophical and political quandaries that basic income poses." The National Farmers’ Union ( NFU) represents the farmers and growers of England and Wales. It aims to promote successful and socially responsible agriculture and horticulture, while ensuring the long-term viability of rural communities. On this reading, even left-wing UBI advocates are unwitting dupes whose political imagination has been warped and depleted by decades of market ideology. U.S. Department of Agriculture. " Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Monthly Issuance Schedule for All States and Territories." But the true genesis moment for UBI, Jäger and Zamora argue, came in the early 1940s, when a young Milton Friedman coined the deeply unromantic term, “negative income tax.” While Friedman was not the first to conceive of a universal wage, he was the first to divorce it entirely from any obligations on the part of the recipient — above all, any assumption that the recipient had performed work of some kind.

Progressive advocates of basic income must bear the burden of explaining why it will not naturalize a deference to individuals and markets that prevents a meaningful collective answer to these emergencies, but it is essential to recognize that what stands in the way of their robust vision is precisely what stands in the way of the less marketized future Jäger and Zamora appear to want. Loosening the yoke of market compulsion through any instrument—in cash or in kind, through transfer or through contract, via the workplace or the state—will require enough power to overcome the same entrenched interests. Pace John Maynard Keynes, who thought that “the power of vested interests” was “vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas,” the world is ruled by little else. UK issued transporter authorisations, certificates of competence and certificates of vehicle approval are not valid for use in the EU. practical assessment of competence including animal handling, and if required, driving skills - for journeys over 8 hours The Kaiser Foundation/Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. " The Impact of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP): What Does the Research Tell Us?"How are you doing? Are you happy? Do you believe you have had adequate opportunities in your life to maximize your potential? Are you able to afford your basic needs, such as housing and health insurance? These and other elements make up our well-being. The following independent bodies carry out assessments for competence and award competence certificates: From Gracchi to Trump, leftists to rightists, monarchists to republicans, legalists to revolutionaries, one idea has been supported by these diverse thinkers, politicians and philosophers in some form or at some time. It is the idea of guaranteeing minimal income to all citizens. It was utopian in poor societies, it is feasible in today's rich societies, and it already exists in some variation. But can it be pushed further, to include all and be delivered regardless of circumstances? Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora take us into an intellectual journey on which we shall meet almost every thinker we know, but they will be, most of the time, traveling with rather unexpected intellectual companions. Enjoy the ride!"

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When you transport animals commercially by air, sea, rail or road in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) you must have a transporter authorisation. This can be issued in Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man . The Animal Welfare Act 2006 is the principal law relating to animal welfare, protecting all vertebrate animals. design, construct and maintain the vehicle and loading and unloading facilities to avoid injury and suffering Not until the Nixon administration did UBI find its champion in the White House. Here Jäger and Zamora’s historical approach shows its power. Considering Nixon’s paeans to the work ethic while in office, his support of a basic income, dubbed the Family Assistance Program (FAP), has stood out as something of a mystery among historians of the postwar United States. Having grounded UBI firmly in a bow to market fundamentalism, Jäger and Zamora demonstrate that his support in fact makes sense.

Put so simply, the idea has a certain intuitive appeal. Yet Friedman’s proposal dovetailed felicitously with several key intellectual developments of the period. The economics profession of the interwar period had been deeply shaped by the “socialist calculation debate” over the possibility of a directly planned economy that erupted in the wake of World War I. In their defense of a free market price system, many economists began to stress its unique capabilities of coordination and efficiency. The field moved to increasingly hardline opposition to collective or state-led determination of needs: instead, welfare—in the sense of preference satisfaction—would have to emerge spontaneously from the aggregated choices of individual consumers. Many maintained that the radical incommensurability of individual desires gave economics no scientific basis on which to advocate income redistribution. By the late 1930s these propositions had become axiomatic for the Anglo-American “neoclassical” mainstream, so much so that even left-leaning economists in this period began to endorse the ultimate efficiency of the price system. Socialist planners, economists such as Oskar Lange and Abba Lerner suggested, should merely build in targets and objectives into prices, and then leave the clearing and equilibrating processes of the market well enough alone. APHA will respond within 15 working days to confirm if the transporter is authorised for the species of animal. APHA will not provide any additional details or copies of documents. Vehicle inspection and approval scheme This guide explains the legislation that protects animals when at shows or markets, your duties to protect an animal from injury and suffering, and regulations regarding the penning, caging and treatment of young animals. Animal protection at marketsCuriously, the authors of Welfare for Markets appear to accept some of these positions, referring at one point to the left’s ‘workerist dogma’ (p.95), perhaps because they see neoliberalism as having fundamentally changed society, making it more atomised and marketised, and so hostile to the values of the social-democratic welfare state. However that may be, it is no dogma to see labour as being key to capitalism and the struggle against it. Gorz’s railing against ‘workerism’ is particularly misplaced; regardless of how people ‘define themselves’, for the great majority of people, work remains life-defining, whether we like it or not. The victories of neoliberalism have meant, worldwide, a decline in working conditions in sector after sector, with pay stagnating in the long term for most, and hours worked increasing. As with the poverty question, guaranteed income emerged here as an interesting alternative both to full employment and to service-based social policies." 75 The Welfare of Farmed Animals (England) Regulations 2007 which are made under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and sets the minimum welfare standards for all farm animals. Schedule 1 sets out conditions under which all farm animals must be kept, with Schedules 2 to 9 providing additional species specific conditions. Specific market legislation ensures a high standard of welfare for all animals passing through markets and creates specific rules that you should follow. The market rules apply as soon as any animal is unloaded at a show or market and remain in force until the animal is removed. The transport legislation ensures that unfit animals are not transported to or from a market. WAMO At once a fascinating intellectual history of the idea of Universal Basic Income, and a trenchant but well-reasoned and nuanced critique of it: this book must be read by anyone who is interested in or affected by one of the central policy tropes of our times."