03601nam 22007335 450 991025530640332120251030105640.09781137590107113759010610.1057/978-1-137-59010-7(CKB)3710000000718214(DE-He213)978-1-137-59010-7(MiAaPQ)EBC4720656(PPN)240426916(Perlego)3490944(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 & Policy,2946-34089781137590091 1137590092 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 & Policy,2946-3408International economic relationsWorld politicsAdministrative lawPolitical planningPublic administrationPolitical scienceInternational Political Economy’Political HistoryAdministrative LawPublic PolicyPublic AdministrationPolitical ScienceInternational economic relations.World politics.Administrative law.Political planning.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