Austerity State

Stephen McBride is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Globalization in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University.Bryan Evans is a professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University.

• Chapter 1Bryan Evans (Ryerson University) and Stephen McBride (McMaster University) "The Austerity State: An Introduction"Chapter 2Gary Teeple (Simon Fraser University) "Austerity: State Indebtedness as Class Struggle"Chapter 3John Peters (Laurentian University) "Post Democracy and the Politics of Inequality: Explaining Policy Responses to the Financial Crisis and the Great Recession"Chapter 4Marjorie Cohen (Simon Fraser University) "Austerity’s Role in Economic Crises: The Relationship Between Social Reproduction and Economic Performance"Chapter 5Stephen McBride and Sorin Mitrea (McMaster University) "Internalizing Neoliberalism and Austerity"Chapter 6Simon Lee (University of Hull) "Expansionary Fiscal Consolidation and ‘The Smarter State’: An Evaluation of The Politics  of Austerity in The United Kingdom since May 2010"Chapter 7Brendan K. O’Rourke and John Hogan (Dublin Institute of Technology) "Frugal Comfort from Ireland: Marginal Tales from an Austere Isle"Chapter 8Stephen McBride (McMaster University) "The New Constitutionalism and Austerity"Chapter 9Dieter Plehwe (Berlin Social Science Research Centre) "Fighting the Financial Crisis or Consolidating Austerity? The Eurobond Battle Reconsidered"Chapter 10Bryan Evans (Ryerson University) "Constructing Economic Policy Advice in an Age of Austerity"Chapter 11Richard Woodward (University of Hull) "Tax Havens in an Austere World: The Clash of New Ideas and Existing Interests"Chapter 12Heather Whiteside (University of Waterloo) "Profiting Off Austerity: Private Finance for Public Infrastructure"Chapter 13Stephen Wilks (University of Exeter) "Austerity and Outsourcing in Britain’s New Corporate State"Chapter 14Meaghan Joy and John Shields (Ryerson University) "Austerity and the Non-Profit Sector: The Case of Social Impact Bonds"Chapter 15Stephen McBride (McMaster University) and Bryan Evans (Ryerson University) "Conclusion"

"The Austerity State’s analyses of the causes and thinking behind the austerity policies of North American and European governments in our time make a very useful contribution to scholarship. The accounts here of the actual practices and social impacts of austerity policies are also so timely and up to date − and so much of the previous literature is broadly and deeply canvassed − that this book can be expected to immediately find its way onto the reading lists of a broad range of university courses." - Leo Panitch, Senior Scholar, Emeritus Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science and Canada Chair in Comparative Political Economy, York University "The Austerity State addresses major themes that are crucial for political economy in our century."- Paul Kellogg, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, Athabasca University