Name: The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the way to Fascism
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Author: Clara E. Mattei
ISBN: 9780226836744

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The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the way to Fascism

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Physical Book

Author

Clara E. Mattei

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

Language

English

Pages

480

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780226836744

The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the way to Fascism

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Synopsis "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the way to Fascism"

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year "A must-read, with key lessons for the future."--Thomas Piketty A groundbreaking examination of austerity's dark intellectual origins. For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to the economic policies of austerity--cuts to wages, fiscal spending, and public benefits--as a path to solvency. While these policies have been successful in appeasing creditors, they've had devastating effects on social and economic welfare in countries all over the world. Today, as austerity remains a favored policy among troubled states, an important question remains: What if solvency was never really the goal? In The Capital Order, political economist Clara E. Mattei explores the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originating motives: the protection of capital--and indeed capitalism--in times of social upheaval from below. Mattei traces modern austerity to its origins in interwar Britain and Italy, revealing how the threat of working-class power in the years after World War I animated a set of top-down economic policies that elevated owners, smothered workers, and imposed a rigid economic hierarchy across their societies. Where these policies "succeeded," relatively speaking, was in their enrichment of certain parties, including employers and foreign trade interests, who accumulated power and capital at the expense of labor. Here, Mattei argues, is where the true value of austerity can be observed: its insulation of entrenched privilege and its elimination of all alternatives to capitalism. Drawing on newly uncovered archival material from Britain and Italy, much of it translated for the first time, The Capital Order offers a damning and essential new account of the rise of austerity--and of modern economics--at the levers of contemporary political power.

Clara E. Mattei

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Clara E. Mattei (nacida en 1988) es una economista y académica italiana, profesora en la Universidad de Tulsa, conocida por su trabajo sobre la historia del capitalismo, la austeridad y la relación entre las ideas económicas y la política tecnocrática, especialmente explorado en su libro El orden del capital, donde analiza la austeridad como herramienta contra el movimiento obrero, conectando sus orígenes con el fascismo, y ahora investiga la Edad de Oro del capitalismo.

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