Anyone thinking of “universal basic income” should think of the DISASTROUS effects of the Poor laws of pre-1834 England

I’ve discussed UBI here. But I chanced upon a chapter in Roger Watson’s 1969 book, Edwin Chadwick, Poor Law & Public Health. It holds a salutory lesson about human incentives. The chapter in PDF. === The Old Poor Law The state of the poor had been worrying the government for some time. The cost of […]