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Austerity Measures, Infrastructure and Economic Development in South Africa (1996–2019)
Organizations and Markets in Emerging Economies, 2023 The paper aims to establish whether austerity measures promote economic development, improve infrastructure development, and whether they exacerbate infrastructure backlogs.
Kukhanyile Mali, Johannes Sheefeni
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Fiscal Austerity Versus Growth in Croatia
Contemporary Economics, 2015 The role of fiscal austerity has been questioned for centuries, but a rapidly increasing deficit along with the financial crisis in 2007/2008 influenced a renewed debate on the economics of austerity.
Marinko Škare, Romina Prziklas Druzeta
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Eesti Majanduspoliitilised Väitlused, 2014 During the latest global financial crisis, austerity as a concept has been described as the best possible and inevitable solution to achieve fiscal consolidation in Europe and in the euro zone.
Liina Kulu, Viljar Veebel
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Urban Planning, 2023 Urban research often focuses on aggregate characteristics of macroeconomic performances or in-depth case studies of everyday urban phenomena. However, this dichotomy risks alienating two perspectives that can constructively illuminate spatial ...
Sander van Lanen
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The Zombie Economy and the Aesthetic of Austerity
Angles, 2019 This article explores the present-day zombie economy as the embodiment of the aesthetic of austerity in Anglo-America. It uses the zombie monster metaphor to capture the multi-scalar manifestations of crisis under conditions of enduring austerity in ...
Ruth Cain, Johnna Montgomerie
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Mises, 2020 Book review of Austerity – When It Works and When It Doesn’t. ALBERTO, Alesina; FAVERO, Carlo; GIAVAZZI, Francesco. Austerity – When It Works and When It Doesn’t.
Ludwig Van Den Hauwe
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2017 Since the 2008 financial crisis, austerity has been deployed as a public policy geared towards reducing sovereign debt and restoring economic order, on the one hand, and descried as an example of punitive moralizing by political and economic elites, on the other. This article challenges the economic understanding of the concept of austerity.
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Review of "Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance" by Robert McRuer (NYU Press)
Lateral, 2020 In his new book Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance, Robert McRuer offers his notion of "crip time" as an analytic through which we may critique the spatio-temporalities of austerity, late capitalism, and the cultural logic of ...
Caroline Alphin
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The impact of austerity measures on economic growth in the Eurozone
Acta Economica, 2014 At the time when most of the countries began to recover from economic crisis, sovereign debt crisis started in Eurozone. Eurozone members created mechanisms for assistance in order to prevent bankruptcy of heavily indebted countries and safeguard the ...
Васиљ Жарковић +2 more
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Austerity: An environmentally dangerous idea
Journal of Political EcologyThe article examines austerity as a policy and practice that is dangerous not only for human societies and economies, but also for more-than-human ecologies and lives.
Giorgos Velegrakis +2 more
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