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Language(s):
eng - English
Dates:
2017
Publication Status:
Issued
Pages:
288
Publishing info:
London : Verso, Second edition, with a new preface
Table of Contents:
Preface to the second edition
Introduction: Crisis Theory, Then and Now
1 From Legitimation Crisis to Fiscal Crisis
A new type of crisis
Two surprises of crisis theory
The other legitimation crisis and the end of the postwar peace
The long turn: from postwar capitalism to neoliberalism
Buying time
2 Neoliberal Reform: From Tax State to Debt State
Financial crisis: a failure of democracy?
Capitalism and democracy in the neoliberal revolution
Excursus: capitalism and democracy
Starving the beast!
The crisis of the tax state
From tax state to debt state
Debt state and distribution
The politics of the debt state
Debt politics as international financial diplomacy
3 The Politics of the Consolidation State: Neoliberalism in Europe
Integration and liberalization
The European Union as a liberalization machine
Institutional change: from Keynes to Hayek
The consolidation state as a European multilevel regime
Fiscal consolidation as a remodelling of the state
Growth: back to the future
Excursus on regional growth programmes
On the strategic capacity of the European consolidation state
Resistance within the international consolidation state
4 Looking Ahead
What now?
Capitalism or democracy
The euro as a frivolous experiment
Democracy in Euroland?
In praise of devaluation
For a European Bretton Woods
Gaining time
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Rev. Type:
-
Identifiers:
ISBN: 978-1-78663-071-1
Degree:
-