EAN: 9780226818399

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

"For more than a century governments facing financial crisis have resorted to the economic policies of austerity-cuts to wages fiscal spending and public benefits-as a means to regain solvency. While these policies have been successful in appeasing creditors they've had devastating effects on social and economic welfare in countries all over the world. Today as austerity remains a favored policy among troubled states an important question remains: what if solvency was never really the goal? In Capital Order political economist Clara E. Mattei traces the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originating motives: the protection of capital-and indeed capitalism-in times of social upheaval from below. Mattei traces modern austerity to its origins in interwar Britain and Italy revealing how the threat of working-class power in the years after World War I animated a set of top-down economic policies that elevated owners smothered workers and imposed a rigid economic hierarchy across their societies. Where these policies "succeeded " relatively speaking was in their enrichment of certain parties including employers and foreign-trade interests who accumulated power and capital at the expense of labor. Here Mattei argues is where the true value of austerity can be observed: its insulation of entrenched privilege and its elimination of all alternatives to capitalism. Drawing on newly uncovered archival material from Britain and Italy much of it translated for the first time Capital Order offers a damning and essential new account of the rise of austerity-and of modern economics-at the levers of contemporary political power"--

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