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Austerity Politics and UK Economic Policy
of: Craig Berry
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
ISBN: 9781137590107 , 126 Pages
Format: PDF, Read online
Copy protection: DRM
Dedication
6
Acknowledgements
8
Contents
10
Abbreviations
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chapter 1: Introduction: Austerity and Growth
14
Growth and Growth Models
15
The Rediscovery of Austerity
20
Chapter Outline and Main Arguments
24
References
27
chapter 2: Financialisation and the Property-Owning Autocracy
29
Austerity and the Housing Market
31
The Meaning of Monetary Activism
34
Financialisation and Everyday Discipline
38
Conclusion
42
Note
43
References
43
chapter 3: Industrial Decline and the Myth of Rebalancing
45
Rebalancing and Austerity
47
Industrial Policy and Manufacturing Since the Crisis
50
Powerhouse Politics
53
Conclusion
57
Note
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References
59
chapter 4: Welfare Retrenchment and the Perversion of Full Employment
63
Employment Growth and Economic Recovery
65
The Impotence of Active Labour Market Policy
68
Austerity and Welfare
72
Conclusion
76
Notes
77
References
78
chapter 5: Deficit Reduction and Budget Irresponsibility
81
Austerity and Economics
84
Institutionalising Austerity
90
Conclusion
94
References
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chapter 6: What’s Left?
98
Labour’s Disorientation
100
Corbynomics and the New Old Politics
106
Whither Social Democracy?
109
Conclusion
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References
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chapter 7: Conclusion
117
Austerity and Crisis
117
The UK Growth Model
119
And Finally
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References
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Index
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