"Traces the afterlives of things. Natalie Scholz shows that West Germany s consumerist ideology took shape through the reinvention of commodities previously tied to Nazism into symbols of Germany s modernity, economic supremacy, and international prestige."

The historical forerunners of contemporary austerity are still largely unexplored. This essay considers the "liberal phase" of Fascist Italy (1922-1925) as a case study to explain austerity as a full-blown rationality, that is intrinsically, and simultaneously, theory and practice, encompassing...