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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: When managed properly, austerity isn’t always really bad news.
Chapter 3: Earlier research on austerity has overlooked key expectations, incentives, and investor confidence issues.
Chapter 4: A narrative approach to the data can reveal new insights about austerity’s effects over time.
Chapter 5: Spending-focused austerity can deliver positive results.
Chapter 6: Tax-based austerity frequently leads to deeper recessions.
Chapter 7: Austerity played a major part after the 2008 financial crash, for better and worse overall.
Chapter 8: Austerity politics are complex, but it isn’t always a political kiss of death for governments.
Description
Austerity (2019) uses data analysis to look at one of the most controversial topics in economics today. An analysis of several countries’ austerity policies over the past several decades reveals that cutting spending can actually help the economy expand.
Who Should Listen
- Economists keen to learn more about austerity
- Politicians looking to brush up on their economics
- Anyone who wants to understand the numbers behind government policy