@article{772139,
      recid = {772139},
      author = {Berry, Craig,},
      title = {Austerity politics and UK economic policy /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {Craig Berry assesses UK economic policy in the wake of the  financial crisis through the lens of the austerity agenda,  focusing on monetary policy, economic rebalancing,  industrial and regional policy, the labour market, welfare  reform and budgetary management. He argues that austerity  is geared towards a resurrection of financialisation and  the UK's pre-crisis economic model, through the  transformation of individual behaviour and demonisation of  the state. Cutting public spending and debt in the short  term is, at most, a secondary concern for the UK policy  elite. However, the underlying purpose of austerity is  frequently misunderstood due to its conflation with a  narrow deficit reduction agenda, not least by its Keynesian  critics. Berry also demonstrates how austerity has  effectively dismantled the prospect of a centre-left  alternative to neoliberalism.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/772139},
}