The politics and economics of Austerity
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Government Department, comparative politics group public lecture
Austerity - the History of a Dangerous Idea - 05 - 2013
Austerity in academic debate
Austerity in practise: empirical evidence
Britain's experience with fiscal contraction
Austerity and the Eurozone: counting the cost
Brad DeLong : The Austerians' Practice of Dumbing Down the Debate Over Fiscal Policy: The-Gloves-Are-Off-Yes-I'm-Looking-at-You-Rudy-Penner Weblogging
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Exit from comment view mode. Click to hide this space Comments View/Create comment on this paragraph WASHINGTON, DC – Santa Claus came early this year for four former executives of Washington Mutual (WaMu), a large US bank that failed in fall 2008. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) had brought a lawsuit against the four, actions that included taking huge financial risks while “knowing that the real estate market was in a ‘bubble.’” The FDIC sought to recover $900 million, but the executives have just settled for $64 million, almost all of which will be paid by their insurers; their out-of-pockets costs are estimated at just $400,000. Comments View/Create comment on this paragraph To be sure, the executives lost their jobs and now must drop claims for additional compensation.
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"The Wrong Austerity Cure" by Laura Tyson
Exit from comment view mode. Click to hide this space Comments View/Create comment on this paragraph BERKELEY – Fiscal profligacy did not cause the sovereign-debt crisis engulfing Europe, and fiscal austerity will not solve it. On the contrary, such austerity has aggravated the crisis and now threatens to bring down the euro and throw the global economy into another tailspin.Does Austerity promote growth?
By Daniel Alpert, the founding Managing Partner of Westwood Capital. Cross posted from EconoMonitor While we may be hours away from a partial (and certainly a stopgap) agreement in the talks among the Greek government, the troika and private sector creditors, it is doubtful that a deal will emerge in a fully constructed fashion that will survive its application in the real economy. It is likely that the only common view amongst participants in the various talks is a desire to try to avoid a disorderly default. Beyond that there is a severe disconnect fostered by parallel realities that seem unable to intersect. Accordingly, a deal that can hold up both in the streets of Greece and in the markets is both illusive and unlikely.
Daniel Alpert: Tinkerbell Economics – The Confidence Fairy, Pixie Dust and a Sleeping Dragon
the economic logic of austerity?
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