Pushing austerity: state failure, municipal bankruptcy and the crises of fiscal federalism in the USA
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In this article, the authors examine the means by which the Wall Street crisis of 2008 has been translated into a state crisis, especially for the state at the subnational and urban scales.Abstract:
By way of a critical exploration of austerity politics in the USA, the paper examines the means by which the Wall Street crisis of 2008 has been translated into a state crisis, especially for the state at the subnational and urban scales. It examines the strategies, rationales and tactics adopted by advocates of austerity measures, which amount to a sustained effort to socialize, rescale and ‘dump’ the costs of the economic crisis. These manoeuvres are transforming the operating environment for state and local government in the USA, and they are remaking the terrains of urban politics at the same time.read more
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Austere reason, and the eschatology of neoliberalism’s End Times
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An institutional and spatial consideration of markets for financialised infrastructure
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TL;DR: In the classic bestseller, Capitalism and Freedom, Friedman presents his view of the proper role of competitive capitalism as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom as mentioned in this paper.
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An Essay on Fiscal Federalism
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Austerity urbanism: American cities under extreme economy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors locate these developments in the context of mutating processes of neoliberal urbanism, commenting on some of its social and spatial consequences, and argue that these conditions are defining a new operational matrix for urban politics.