Recent Work by Our Members

2020. Somers, Margaret R. “The Moral Economy of the Capitalist Crowd: Utopianism, the Reality of Society, and the Market as a Morally-Instituted Process in Polanyi’s The Great Transformation.” Special Dossier on Moral Economy, edited by Jeremy Adelman and Sam Moyn. Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, Volume 11, Number 2, Summer 2020, pp. 227-234

2020. Somers, Margaret R., and Fred Block. “Polanyi’s Democratic Socialist Vision: Piketty through the Lens of Polanyi.” Pp. 211-30 in Karl Polanyi and twenty-first century capitalism. Edited by Radhika Desai and Kari Polanyi Levitt. Manchester, UK: University of Manchester Press.

Somers, Margaret R. 2020. “Even the Republican ‘Skinny’ Relief Bill Failed. How Is Such Unnecessary Suffering Justified? | Margaret Somers.” The Guardian. (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/14/republican-skinny-coronavirus-relief-mitch-mcconnell).

Brown, Hana E. 2020. “Who Is an Indian Child? Institutional Context, Tribal Sovereignty, and Race-Making in Fragmented States.” American Sociological Review 85(5):776–805.