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Against austerity : how we can fix the crisis they made /
A blistering, accessible and invigorating polemic against the current political consensus.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London :
PlutoPress,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Bad News Gospel; Five Years of Glorious Failure; Austerity, Bailouts and Neoliberalism; Example 1: The Austerity State; Facing the Catastrophe; 1. Class; No Such Thing as Society: Classes and Neoliberalism; Neoliberalism as Crisis Management I; Neoliberalism as Crisis Management II; Example 2: Austerity in the US
- Wisconsin and the Workers; 2. State; The 'Fiscal Crisis' of Modern States and the 'Crisis of Authority'; The Mystery of the Neoliberal State; The Neoliberal Power Bloc in Crisis.
- Example 3: The Eurozone, Greece and 'Failed States'; 3. Ideology; Austerity in the UK I: The Ideology of Elites; Austerity in the UK II: The Ideology of 'Public Opinion'; Example 4: Why isn't Shanene Thorpe a 'Supermum'?; Coda: Austerity Nostalgia and the Spirit of 1945; Conclusion: Strategy; Ideology; State; Class; Example 5: A Rare Success in Quebec; Index.