Industrial poverty : yesterday Sweden, today Europe, tomorrow America /
Conventional wisdom says that Europe's crisis is a financial crisis. But is this really the case? In Industrial Poverty, economist Sven R. Larson, challenges this view and suggests instead that Europe is in a state of permanent economic decline. The crisis, says Larson, is in fact a welfare-sta...
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| Language: | English |
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Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT :
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2014
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| Series: | Gower applied business research.
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| Summary: | Conventional wisdom says that Europe's crisis is a financial crisis. But is this really the case? In Industrial Poverty, economist Sven R. Larson, challenges this view and suggests instead that Europe is in a state of permanent economic decline. The crisis, says Larson, is in fact a welfare-state crisis. Over decades, government has grown too big for the private sector to pay for; when the recession hit in 2008 most European economies could no longer bear the burden of the welfare state. Raging deficits, accelerating unemployment and harsh austerity policies hurled the continent into more than a regular recession. Europe is entering a new economic state: industrial poverty. Using Sweden in the 1990s as an example, Larson shows how a welfare-state crisis combined with the wrong kind of austerity policies replaces prosperity with industrial poverty. In a desperate effort to balance the budget and save the welfare state in the midst of the crisis, the Swedish government subjected the country to some of the toughest austerity measures on record. The outcome was a permanent reduction in the standard of living for Swedish families as well as the standard of government services. Today, Europe is going through the same transition into industrial poverty. Tomorrow, it could be the United States, unless Congress and the President take decisive action against the runaway budget deficit.-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 189 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1472439333 9781472439338 9781472439345 1472439341 9781322433639 1322433631 1317117077 9781317117070 1317117069 9781317117063 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
