RN Rear Vision - 28 September 2011 - Tighten your belts: a history of austerity

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Austerity measures are increasingly presented as the final solution for countries in economic crisis - but where does this idea come from, and how has it changed?

Guests:
Mark Blyth, Prof of International Political Economy, Brown University, USA. Author of forthcoming book, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

David Kynaston, British Historian. Author of Austerity Britain

Leonid Petrov, Lecturer in Korean Studies, University of Sydney; Visiting fellow, College of Asian and Pacific studies, Australian National University

Further Information:
Leonid Petrov – (http://www.leonidpetrov.com/)

Publications:
Title: Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
Author: Mark Blyth
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2012 (forthcoming)
URL: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Politics/?view=usa&ci=9780199828302

Title: Austerity Britain
Author: David Kynaston
Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2007
URL: http://bloomsbury.com/David-Kynaston/authors/2758

Presenter:
Kate Evans

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/rearvision/stories/2011/3319666.htm

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