The Austerity State

Herausgeber: Mcbride, Stephen; Evans, Bryan M

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Produktbeschreibung

The fall-out from the economic and financial crisis of 2008 had profound implications for countries across the world, leading different states to determine the best approach to mitigating its effects. In The Austerity State, a group of established and emerging scholars tackles the question of why states continue to rely on policies that, on many levels, have failed. After 2008, austerity policies were implemented in various countries, a fact the contributors link to the persistence of neoliberalism and its accepted wisdoms about crisis management. In the immediate aftermath of the 2008 collapse, governments and central banks appeared to adopt a Keynesian approach to salvaging the global economy. This perception is mistaken, the authors argue. The “austerian” analysis of the crisis is ahistorical and shifts the blame from the under-regulated private sector to public, or sovereign, debt for which public authorities are responsible. The Austerity State provides a critical examination of the accepted discourse around austerity measures and explores the reasons behind its continued prevalence in the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781487521950
• ISBN-10: 1487521952
• Artikelnr.: 47973582

Autorenporträt

Edited by Stephen McBride and Bryan M. Evans

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1
Bryan Evans (Ryerson University) and Stephen McBride (McMaster University)
"The Austerity State: An Introduction"
Chapter 2
Gary Teeple (Simon Fraser University) "Austerity: State Indebtedness as
Class Struggle"
Chapter 3
John Peters (Laurentian University) "Post Democracy and the Politics of
Inequality: Explaining Policy Responses to the Financial Crisis and the
Great Recession"
Chapter 4
Marjorie Cohen (Simon Fraser University) "Austerity’s Role in Economic
Crises: The Relationship Between Social Reproduction and Economic
Performance"
Chapter 5
Stephen McBride and Sorin Mitrea (McMaster University) "Internalizing
Neoliberalism and Austerity"
Chapter 6
Simon Lee (University of Hull) "Expansionary Fiscal Consolidation and ‘The
Smarter State’: An Evaluation of The Politics  of Austerity in The United
Kingdom since May 2010"
Chapter 7
Brendan K. O’Rourke and John Hogan (Dublin Institute of Technology) "Frugal
Comfort from Ireland: Marginal Tales from an Austere Isle"
Chapter 8
Stephen McBride (McMaster University) "The New Constitutionalism and
Austerity"
Chapter 9
Dieter Plehwe (Berlin Social Science Research Centre) "Fighting the
Financial Crisis or Consolidating Austerity? The Eurobond Battle
Reconsidered"
Chapter 10
Bryan Evans (Ryerson University) "Constructing Economic Policy Advice in an
Age of Austerity"
Chapter 11
Richard Woodward (University of Hull) "Tax Havens in an Austere World: The
Clash of New Ideas and Existing Interests"
Chapter 12
Heather Whiteside (University of Waterloo) "Profiting Off Austerity:
Private Finance for Public Infrastructure"
Chapter 13
Stephen Wilks (University of Exeter) "Austerity and Outsourcing in
Britain’s New Corporate State"
Chapter 14
Meaghan Joy and John Shields (Ryerson University) "Austerity and the
Non-Profit Sector: The Case of Social Impact Bonds"
Chapter 15
Stephen McBride (McMaster University) and Bryan Evans (Ryerson University)
"Conclusion"