that book on Karly Polanyi

[Dave Monroe]

Why Polanyi Still Matters

http://www.onthecommons.org/why-karl-polanyi-still-matters

Polanyi and the Neoliberals

http://eoinhiggins.blogspot.com/2010/02/polanyi-and-neoliberals.html

Polanyi’s Double Movement and the Reconstruction of Critical Theory

http://interventionseconomiques.revues.org/274

A Brief History of Neoliberalism

https://books.google.com/books?id=F5DZvEVt890C&pg=PT45&lpg=PT45&dq=harvey+polanyi+neoliberalism+brief+history&source=bl&ots=P73pVHV3Np&sig=rbJyq4XLsRz-IgzzxEUfu3OVlsc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Mg4HVZ_xG7j8sASltIK4DA&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAjgU#v=onepage&q=polanyi&f=false

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Power of Market Fundamentalism, importantly, contributes new
> research that pinpoints the moment in history when these ideas--social
> naturalism and the perversity thesis--became popularized. In 1795, in a
> small English town called Speenhamland, squires decreed that the poor
> would be entitled to welfare depending on the going price of bread and
> their family size. In 1798, Thomas Malthus reacted hostilely in his
> Essay on the Principle of Population, and argued that poor relief
> eliminates the scarcity that creates work incentives, thereby creating
> market disfunction. But this did not immediately translate into
> legislative change. Many elites worried that abolishing the Poor Law
> would trigger revolution in the countryside. But in 1834, after
> push-back from landed elites and clergy and with a new Whig government
> in power, a Royal Commission Report issued a damning critique of the
> program, spreading the ideas of Malthus to the population. The Report
> reframed the agricultural downturn as an "enduring parable of the
> dangers of government 'interference' with the market." The result was
> welfare retrenchment, the New Poor Law, which substituted workhouses
> for relief and laid a foundation for social naturalism that persists
> today. Markets became embedded in ideas.
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