Full Description
The 2008 global economic crisis has led to a new age of austerity, based more on politics than economics, which threatens to undermine the very foundations of the welfare state. However, as resistance to the logic of austerity grows, this important book, the second of a three-book series, argues that there is still room for optimism.
Contents
Introduction: social policy in the age of austerity ‾ Kevin Farnsworth and Zoë Irving;
Austerity: more than the sum of its parts ‾ Kevin Farnsworth and Zoë Irving;
Conventional wisdom on government austerity: UK politics since the 1920s ‾ Michael Hill;?
The economics of austerity ‾ Stephen Mcbride;
Neoliberalism, finance-dominated accumulation and enduring austerity: a cultural political economy perspective ‾ Bob Jessop;?
Alternatives to austerity ‾ Dexter Whitfield and John Spoehr;
Crisis, convulsion and the welfare state ‾ Frances Fox-Piven and Lorraine Minnite;
Conclusion: a new politics of welfare ‾ Kevin Farnsworth and Zoë Irving.
