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"This volume focuses on the state's role in managing the fall-out from the global economic and financial crisis since 2008. For a brief moment, roughly from 2008-2010, governments and central banks appeared to borrow from Keynes to save the global economy. The contributors, however, take t...
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University of Toronto Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Toronto : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"This volume focuses on the state's role in managing the fall-out from the global economic and financial crisis since 2008. For a brief moment, roughly from 2008-2010, governments and central banks appeared to borrow from Keynes to save the global economy. The contributors, however, take the view that to see those stimulus measures as "Keynesian" is a misinterpretation. Rather, neoliberalism demonstrated considerable resiliency despite its responsibility for the deep and prolonged crisis. The "austerian" analysis of the crisis is--historical, ignores its deeper roots, and rests upon a triumph of discourse involving blame-shifting from the under-regulated private sector to public or sovereign debt--for which the public authorities are responsible."-- |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 339 pages : illustrations, forms ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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9781487521950 (paperback) : 1487521952 (paperback) 9781487502362 1487502362 |
| Index Number: | HB3717 2008 |
| CLC: | F831.59 |
| Call Number: | F831.59/A934 |
| Contents: |
The Austerity State: An Introduction / Austerity Policies: From the Keynesian to the Corporate Welfare State / Post-Democracy and the Politics of Inequality: Explaining Policy Responses to the Financial Crisis and the Great Recession / Austerity's Role in Economic Performance: The Relationships between Social Reproduction Spending, the Economy, and People / Internalizing Neoliberalism and Austerity / Expansionary Fiscal Consolidation and the "Smarter State": An Evaluation of the Politics of Austerity in the United Kingdom, May 2010 to February 2016 / Frugal Comfort from Ireland: Marginal Tales from an Austere Isle / The New Constitutionalism and Austerity / Fighting the Financial Crisis or Consolidating Austerity? The Eurobond Battle Reconsidered / Constructing Economic Policy Advice in an Age of Austerity / Tax Havens in an Austere World: The Clash of New Ideas and Existing Interests / Profiting off Austerity: Private Finances for Public Infrastructure / Austerity and Outsourcing in Britain's New Corporate State / Austerity and the Non-profit Sector: The Case of Social Impact Bonds / Conclusion / |