UID:
almafu_9959239169602883
Format:
1 online resource (216 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-415-78965-6
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1-315-58842-0
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1-317-11707-7
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1-317-11706-9
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1-4724-3933-3
Content:
Conventional wisdom says that Europe's crisis is a financial crisis. But is this really the case? In Industrial Poverty, economist Sven R. Larson, challenges this view and suggests instead that Europe is in a state of permanent economic decline. Using Sweden in the 1990's as an example, he shows how a welfare-state crisis combined with the wrong kind of austerity policies replaces prosperity with industrial poverty. Today, Europe is going through the same transition into industrial poverty. Tomorrow, it could be the United States, unless Congress and the President take decisive action against
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Author Biography; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 The Nature of the European Crisis; 2 Sweden: Austerity Gone Wrong; 3 Industrial Poverty; 4a Europe in 2012: Entering the Economic Wasteland; 4b Europe in 2012: Deeper into the Crisis; 5 Can Austerity Work?; 6 Way Forward; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-43363-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4724-3932-5
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
