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 models 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 Baltic model 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 austerity fix has been neither fully accepted by its peoples, nor is it fully a success. This book explains why and what are the real social and economic cost…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Woolfson, Charles (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-317-80015-6
- EAN: 9781317800156
- Produktnummer: 17030845
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 218 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'312 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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