Why Austerity Is 'A Nonsense': Mark Blyth The term "austerity" has become a popular and concise way of describing the various methods of economic belt-tightening being employed throughout Europe and much of the United States. But austerity has also been used to justify sweeping cuts in crucial social services that unduly burden lower-income earners, according to international political economist Mark Blyth, who appears in a new video produced by Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies. Explaining the world as a series "balance sheets," Blyth details the debt-fueled boom that effected both corporations and consumers. The rescue of "too big too fail" institutions put huge burdens national economies, Blyth says, which has lead to a virtually simultaneous series of tough political choices for world leaders. But the cuts contained in world austerity measures may affect some more than others. "Where does this common sense virtue of austerity leave us it leaves us? WATCH the video:
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