"This volume focuses on the state's role in managing the fall-out from the global economic and financial crisis since 2008. For a brief moment, roughly from 2008-2010, governments and central banks appeared to borrow from Keynes to save the global economy. The contributors, however, take the...

Cover -- Contents -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Austerity State: An Introduction -- Section 1: State Responses to Crisis -- 2 Austerity Policies: From the Keynesian to the Corporate Welfare State -- 3 Post-Democracy and the Politics of Inequality: Explaining Policy Responses to the...