From Poverty to Perversity: Ideas, Markets, and Institutions over 200 Years of Welfare Debate

By Margaret R. Somers, F. Block. 2005

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Subfields: Finance, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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The moral economy of inequality: popular views on income differentiation, poverty and wealth (2012, background): “…classes alike (Gailus and Lindenberger, 1994, p. 474), thus representing part of society’s moral infrastructure.4 Consequently, it emphasizes the ‘ideational embeddedness’ (Somers and Block, 2005, p. 263) of ordinary people’s thinking about social inequality within a broader normative horizon.”
Institutional Emergence in an Era of Globalization: The Rise of Transnational Private Regulation of Labor and Environmental Conditions1 (2007, background): “…and management operations financed by the World Bank to be monitored through independent assessment and certification” (World Bank 2004, p. 7), and the Bolivian government now recognizes forest certification as equivalent to government inspection for the purpose of granting timber concessions.”
Politics of ‘Leaving No One Behind’: Contesting the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda (2017, background): “15 In a recent insightful paper, entitled from Poverty to perversity, Somers and Block (2005) argued that welfare debates in the USA continue to rely on such Malthusian conceptions of poverty.”
Emotional Policy: Personal Sadness and Anger Shape Judgments about a Welfare Case (2008, background): “The appropriate levels of welfare and other public assistance have been hotly debated in public policy (see Somers & Block, 2005, for recent perspectives in the debate).”
Moral Views of Market Society (2007, background): “In the United States, they strove primarily to protect community self-determination and prevent public corruption; in France centralized coordination by the state was deemed necessary to avoid logistical chaos; and in Britain they were concerned with protecting individual sovereignty.”