The Global Life of Austerity

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The Global Life of Austerity is written by Theodoros Rakopoulos and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1785338714 (ISBN 10) and 9781785338717 (ISBN 13).

Austerity and structural adjustment programs are just the latest forms of neoliberal policy to have a profoundly damaging impact on the targeted populations. Yet, as the contributors to this collection argue, the recent austerity-related European crisis is not a breach of erstwhile development schemes, but a continuation of economic policies. Using historical analysis and ethnographically-grounded research, this volume shows the similarities of the European conundrum with realities outside Europe, seeing austerity in a non-Eurocentric fashion. In doing so, it offers novel insights as to how economic crises are experienced at a global level.