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Tag Archives: fiscal deficits
Sep 25 2015
The Austerity Tortoise and the Keynesian Hare
Comments Off on The Austerity Tortoise and the Keynesian HareBy Douglas Bulloch Nobel-Laureate-Paul-Krugman recently used his New York Times column to instruct Grandmothers on the best method for removing the contents of intact eggs (hint: with a straw). But his reductive account of Keynesian economics merely obliges a response … Continue reading
Posted by: September 25, 2015
Tagged with: austerity, debt crisis, fiscal deficits, George Osborne, growth, Neo-Keynesian policies, Paul Krugman, unemployment rate
Jan 13 2014
Europe is diverging: ignore it at your peril
2 CommentsBy Lorenzo Marsili In the optimistic 1990s, the introduction of the Euro was to represent the kernel of the European integration process. The single currency was meant to act as the motor for the “ever-closer” convergence of European economies, thereby … Continue reading
Posted by: January 13, 2014
Tagged with: debt crisis, ECB, EU, Euro, Eurozone, fiscal deficits, Monetary Policy, unemployment
Sep 17 2013
Gendering the Euro Crisis
Comments Off on Gendering the Euro CrisisBy Ania Plomien and Diane Perrons Five years ago the failure of the international financial sector – prompted by the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in the USA in September 2008, followed by the RBS bail out in the UK and the … Continue reading
Posted by: September 17, 2013
Tagged with: austerity, ethnicity, fiscal deficits, growth, Inequality, Neoliberalism, social class, women