Austerity: The Great Failure/ (Record no. 4894)
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| control field | 4894 |
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 2013041994 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780300212778 |
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| Classification number | HC79.C6S263 2014 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 339.47--dc23 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Schui, Florian |
| 9 (RLIN) | 7032 |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Austerity: The Great Failure/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Florian Schui |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Yale University Press; |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2014 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 232p; |
| Dimensions | 21x13cm |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Economic consumption-History; Thriftiness-History; Saving and Investment-History; Economic Policy-History Austerity is at the center of political debates today. Its defenders praise it as a panacea that will prepare the ground for future growth and stability. Critics insist it will precipitate a vicious cycle of economic decline, possibly leading to political collapse. But the notion that abstinence from consumption brings benefits to states, societies, or individuals is hardly new. This book puts the debates of our own day in perspective by exploring the long history of austerity—a popular idea that lives on despite a track record of dismal failure. Florian Schui shows that arguments in favor of austerity were—and are today—mainly based on moral and political considerations, rather than on economic analysis. Unexpectedly, it is the critics of austerity who have framed their arguments in the language of economics. Schui finds that austerity has failed intellectually and in economic terms every time it has been attempted. He examines thinkers who have influenced our ideas about abstinence from Aristotle through such modern economic thinkers as Smith, Marx, Veblen, Weber, Hayek, and Keynes, as well as the motives behind specific twentieth-century austerity efforts. The persistence of the concept cannot be explained from an economic perspective, Schui concludes, but only from the persuasive appeal of the moral and political ideas linked to it. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | English |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Budget cuts |
| 9 (RLIN) | 7033 |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Fiscal policy- austerity |
| 9 (RLIN) | 7034 |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | HJ8001-8899 Public Finance- Public debts |
| 9 (RLIN) | 7035 |
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| Social Sciences | SAF Reference Library | SAF Reference Library | 02/17/2025 | Reading Room- Time Is Out Of Joint | HJ8001-8899 14.018 | 4894 | 02/17/2025 | 02/17/2025 | Book |