Loading…

The austerity state /

"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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: McBride, Stephen (Editor), Evans, Bryan M., 1960- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Copyright; Acknowledgments; 1 The Austerity State: An Introduction; Section 1: State Responses to Crisis; 2 Austerity Policies: From the Keynesian to the Corporate Welfare State; 3 Post-Democracy and the Politics of Inequality: Explaining Policy Responses to the Financial Crisis and the Great Recession; 4 Austerity's Role in Economic Performance: The Relationships between Social Reproduction Spending, the Economy, and People; 5 Internalizing Neoliberalism and Austerity.
  • 6 Expansionary Fiscal Consolidation and the "Smarter State": An Evaluation of the Politics of Austerity in the United Kingdom, May 2010 to February 20167 Frugal Comfort from Ireland: Marginal Tales from an Austere Isle; Section 2: State Reconfiguration; 8 The New Constitutionalism and Austerity; 9 Fighting the Financial Crisis or Consolidating Austerity? The Eurobond Battle Reconsidered; 10 Constructing Economic Policy Advice in an Age of Austerity; 11 Tax Havens in an Austere World: The Clash of New Ideas and Existing Interests.
  • 12 Profiting off Austerity: Private Finance for Public Infrastructure13 Austerity and Outsourcing in Britain's New Corporate State; 14 Austerity and the Non-profit Sector: The Case of Social Impact Bonds; 15 Conclusion; Contributors.