03960nam 22007095 450 991025530640332120220426233247.01-137-59010-610.1057/978-1-137-59010-7(CKB)3710000000718214(DE-He213)978-1-137-59010-7(MiAaPQ)EBC4720656(PPN)240426916(EXLCZ)99371000000071821420160531d2016 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAusterity politics and UK economic policy /by Craig Berry1st ed. 2016.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (XII, 116 p.)Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy1-137-59009-2 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.1. Introduction: Austerity and Growth -- 2. Financialisation and the Property-Owning Democracy -- 3. Industrial Decline and the Myth of Rebalancing -- 4. Welfare Retrenchment and the Perversion of Full Employment -- 5. Deficit Reduction and Budget Irresponsibility -- 6. What's Left? -- 7. Conclusion -- .Craig Berry assesses UK economic policy in the wake of the financial crisis through the lens of the austerity agenda, focusing on monetary policy, economic rebalancing, industrial and regional policy, the labour market, welfare reform and budgetary management. He argues that austerity is geared towards a resurrection of financialisation and the UK’s pre-crisis economic model, through the transformation of individual behaviour and demonisation of the state. Cutting public spending and debt in the short term is, at most, a secondary concern for the UK policy elite. However, the underlying purpose of austerity is frequently misunderstood due to its conflation with a narrow deficit reduction agenda, not least by its Keynesian critics. Berry also demonstrates how austerity has effectively dismantled the prospect of a centre-left alternative to neoliberalism.Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & PolicyPolitical economyWorld politicsAdministrative lawPublic policyPublic administrationPolitical scienceInternational Political Economyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/912140Political Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911080Administrative Lawhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/R17036Public Policyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911060Public Administrationhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W34030Political Sciencehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911000Great BritainEconomic policy21st centuryPolitical economy.World politics.Administrative law.Public policy.Public administration.Political science.International Political Economy.Political History.Administrative Law.Public Policy.Public Administration.Political Science.320.941Berry Craigauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut790248Sheffield Political Economy and Research Institute.BOOK9910255306403321Austerity politics and UK economic policy1764155UNINA