Austerity

ISBN-13: 9781509534876 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 174 str.

Suzanne J. Konzelmann

Recenzje

"Suzanne J. Konzelmann's book is an incredibly valuable contribution to the growing backlash against austerity. The broad and rich historical and international perspective confirms that these pernicious policies have a track record of failure." Geoff Tily, senior economist, Trades Union Congress "In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, austerity policies were imposed in many countries, with results ranging from disappointing to disastrous. Konzelmann shows how the logic of austerity was fundamentally undermined by the emergence of the welfare state in the twentieth century. Austerity policies threaten the automatic stabilizing effects of a large welfare state, and are therefore counterproductive." John Quiggin, University of Queensland

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Shifting Responses to the Evolution of National Debt and the Economic Role of the State Chapter 3 National Accounting and the Economics of Austerity Chapter 4 Selling Austerity - Economics, Politics and Society Chapter 5 Austerity and Welfare - An Unstable Mixture: Britain, Germany & the United States between the Wars Chapter 6 Austerity (and Stimulus) in Post-war Chile, America, Ireland and Japan Chapter Some have Austerity thrust upon them, Others Embrace it: Ireland, Greece and the United Kingdom after the 2008 crisis Chapter 8 Post-2008 Variations on Austerity: Iceland and the United States Chapter 9 Austerity's political economic, ideological and socio-cultural dimensions Chapter 10 Conclusions Notes References

O autorze

Suzanne J. Konzelmann is Reader in Management at Birkbeck, University of London