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Austerity : the great failure / / Florian Schui



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Autore: Schui Florian <1973-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Austerity : the great failure / / Florian Schui Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Haven, Connecticut : , : Yale University Press, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 p.)
Disciplina: 339.4/7
Soggetto topico: Consumption (Economics) - History
Thriftiness - History
Saving and investment - History
Economic policy - History
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Austerity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-300-20624-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910807280003321
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