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

by Clara E. Mattei

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022681839X
• ISBN13: 9780226818399
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"