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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Blyth, Mark, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.