Overview
- Presents contemporary views on austerity v stimulus from the world's leading economic figures in one collection
- Provides readers with the tools necessary to engage in the debate
- Concludes with an outlook on what comes next for this ongoing narrative and the future of the world's economy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Politics of the Debate
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The Two Sides of the Debate
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Austerity vs Stimulus in the UK
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About this book
Reviews
“In many European countries, and especially in the United Kingdom, the austerity policies followed since the financial crisis have led to political upheaval and are increasingly put into question. This book comes at the right time. It brings together the arguments of economists pro and con austerity. The originality of the book is to introduce a historical perspective to this debate.” (Paul De Grauwe, LSE, UK)
“This book is a veritable treasury of the key sources on the most controversial economic issue of our time - austerity. Not only has it collected the most important writings on the subject but it also provides highly sophisticated but accessible introductions to each of them. It is an absolutely essential reading for everyone who wants to understand what is going on with our economy and politics.” (Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge, UK)
“In this excellent intellectual biography of the crisis, Skidelsky and Fraccaroli give us both the historical arguments, and the contemporary adaptations of these arguments, for Austerity and Stimulus. The politics of economic theory has never been so clearly exposed.” (Mark Blyth, Professor of International Political Economy, Brown University, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Nicolò Fraccaroli is a PhD student in Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. He obtained his MSc in the Political Economy of Europe at the London School of Economics, UK. Previously he worked for the Centre for Global Studies, London, UK, on the reform of the economics curriculum. He is a member of the Rethinking Economics network and founded its organisation in Italy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Austerity vs Stimulus
Book Subtitle: The Political Future of Economic Recovery
Authors: Robert Skidelsky, Nicolò Fraccaroli
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50439-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50438-4Published: 17 August 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50439-1Published: 08 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 183
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations
Topics: Popular Science in Economics, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, International Political Economy, Economic Policy, Economic Growth