The austerity state /

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Imprint:	Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2017.
Description:	vi, 339 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009) Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009. Neoliberalism. Economic policy. Economic policy. Neoliberalism.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11339557

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ISBN:	1487521952 9781487521950 1487502362 9781487502362
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	"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 the view that to see those stimulus measures as "Keynesian" is a misinterpretation. Rather, neoliberalism demonstrated considerable resiliency despite its responsibility for the deep and prolonged crisis. The "austerian" analysis of the crisis is--historical, ignores its deeper roots, and rests upon a triumph of discourse involving blame-shifting from the under-regulated private sector to public or sovereign debt--for which the public authorities are responsible."--

Table of Contents:

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 2016
7. 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 Infrastructure
13. 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

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