Austerity : the history of a dangerous idea /
"Conservatives today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A primer on austerity, debt, and morality plays
- America : too big to fail? : bankers, bailouts, and blaming the state
- Europe : too big to bail : the politics of permanent austerity
- Introduction to chapters 4, 5, and 6: Austerity's intellectual and natural histories
- The intellectual history of a dangerous idea, 1642-1942
- The intellectual history of a dangerous idea, 1942-2012
- Austerity's natural history, 1914-2012
- The end of banking, new tales, and a taxing time ahead.