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UNINA9910453603503321 |
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Autore |
Schui Florian <1973-> |
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Titolo |
Austerity : the great failure / / Florian Schui |
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New Haven, Connecticut : , : Yale University Press, , 2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Consumption (Economics) - History |
Thriftiness - History |
Saving and investment - History |
Economic policy - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Austere ideas for austere societies: from Aristotle to Aquinas -- 2 Austerity v. reason: from Mandeville to Voltaire -- 3 Austerity for capitalism: from Smith to Weber -- 4 Austerity for stability: from the Great War to the next -- 5 Austerity can wait: Keynes -- 6 Austerity for the state: Hayek -- 7 Austerity for the planet: green ideas of consumption -- 8 Is greed good? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index |
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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 |
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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. |
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UNINA9910791915203321 |
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Autore |
Fanning Bryan |
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Immigration and social cohesion in the Republic of Ireland [[electronic resource] /] / Bryan Fanning |
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Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2011 |
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1-78170-221-7 |
1-84779-419-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Social change - Ireland |
Ireland Emigration and immigration |
Ireland Social conditions 21st century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Identities and capabilities -- Integration into what? -- Social cohesion -- Some numbers and percentages -- Some immigrant lives -- Education and segregation -- Integration as social inclusion -- Politics and citizenship -- Some challenges. |
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In the last decade Ireland's immigrant population grew to more than one in ten. Now in the midst of an economic crisis the integration of immigrants has become a topical issue. Drawing extensively on demographic data and research on immigrant lives, immigrant participation in Irish politics and the experiences of immigrants living in deprived communities, this book offers a thorough study of the |
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immigrant experience in Ireland today. Well-researched chapters and case studies examine the effects of immigration on social cohesion, the role of social policy, the nature and extent of segregation i |
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