Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Social policy in the age of austerity
- one Austerity: more than the sum of its parts
- two Conventional wisdom on government austerity: UK politics since the 1920s
- three The economics of austerity
- four Neoliberalism, finance-dominated accumulation and enduring austerity: a cultural political economy perspective
- five Alternatives to austerity
- six Crisis, convulsion and the welfare state
- Conclusion A new politics of welfare
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 March 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Social policy in the age of austerity
- one Austerity: more than the sum of its parts
- two Conventional wisdom on government austerity: UK politics since the 1920s
- three The economics of austerity
- four Neoliberalism, finance-dominated accumulation and enduring austerity: a cultural political economy perspective
- five Alternatives to austerity
- six Crisis, convulsion and the welfare state
- Conclusion A new politics of welfare
- Index
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- Social Policy in Times of AusterityGlobal Economic Crisis and the New Politics of Welfare, pp. i - iiPublisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2015