Neoliberal welfare critics rejected rising living standards as equalizing

Evidence

Responding to the Labour Party’s demand that the poverty line and welfare payments should rise to give welfare recipients a share in rising prosperity, Hagenbuch similarly retorted: ‘In a society of millionaires, the purpose of the Welfare State would be to ensure that the sick, the unemployed and the aged were millionaires also.’ — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 214

Categorization

• QUESTION: Who is Hagenbuch, and what text is this quote from? Would be worth chasing down the original.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberals sought minimal welfare that avoided legitimizing the welfare state — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 206; Neoliberal development framed egalitarian welfare norms as obstacles to be overcome — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 409

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal development framed egalitarian welfare norms as obstacles to be overcome #expands (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 409
• Neoliberals sought minimal welfare that avoided legitimizing the welfare state #complicates (0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 206