The Contradictions of Austerity
The Socio-Economic Costs of the Neoliberal Baltic Model
The great financial crisis of 2008 and the ensuing global economic and financial turmoil have launched a search for &quote;models&quote; for recovery. The advocates of austerity present the Baltic States as countries that through discipline and sacrifice showed the way out of crisis. They have proposed the &quote;Baltic model&quote; of radical public sector cuts, wage reductions, labor market reforms and reductions in living standards for other troubled Eurozone countries to emulate. Yet, the reality of the Baltic &quote;austerity fix&quote; has been neither fully accepted by its peoples, nor is it fully a success. Thi…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Woolfson, Charles (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-317-80014-9
- EAN: 9781317800149
- Produktnummer: 17030843
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 218 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'775 KB
- Abbildungen: 14 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 14 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 2 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Jeffrey Sommers is Associate Professor of Political Economy & Public Policy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Charles Woolfson is a labour sociologist at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity, and Society (REMESO), Linköping University, Sweden.
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