Toronto, Canadá : University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, c2017.

1 recurso electrónico (345 p.)

1. The austerity state: an introduction. -- I. 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. -- II. State reconfiguration. -- 8. The new constitutionalism and austerity. -- 9. Fighting the financial crisis or consolidating austerity? the Eurobond battle reconsidering. -- 10. Constructing economic policy advice in an age of austerity. -- 11. Tax havens in 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. --

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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