"Bryan M. Evans, Stephen McBride, and their contributors delve further into the more practical, ground-level side of the austerity equation in Austerity: The Lived Experience. Economically, austerity policies cannot be seen to work in the way elite interests claim that they do. Rather than...

"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...