i want to ask you about u b i and the context of you were talking earlier, henry george's progress in poverty. What do you think about a universal basic income? Just give everybody a thousand bucks? Now, a year ago, people thought that was crazy, but here we just set people checks of two trillion dollars, and we're about to do it again. I don't see any purpose of that. If we're focused on,. if we'refocused on poverty, let's address poverty. Let's not drown the poverty programme by giving money to virtually everybody in the country. Would much rather have an income support problem with or without a work requirement. Either with or
In episode 162 of The Michael Shermer Show, Michael speaks with one of the nation’s preeminent experts on economic policy, Benjamin Friedman, about his new book Religion and the Rise of Capitalism — a major reassessment of the foundations of modern economic thinking that explores the profound influence of an until-now unrecognized force — religion.
Critics of contemporary economics complain that belief in free markets — among economists as well as many ordinary citizens — is a form of religion. And, it turns out, that in a deeper, more historically grounded sense there is something to that idea. Contrary to the conventional historical view of economics as an entirely secular product of the Enlightenment, Benjamin Friedman demonstrates that religion exerted a powerful influence from the outset.