Austerity: the history of a dangerous idea
A primer on austerity, debt, and morality plays -- America : too big to fail? : bankers, bailouts, and blaming the state -- Europe : too big to bail : the politics of permanent austerity -- Introduction to chapters 4, 5, and 6: Austerity's intellectual and natural histories -- The intellectual history of a dangerous idea, 1642-1942 -- The intellectual history of a dangerous idea, 1942-2012 -- Austerity's natural history, 1914-2012 -- The end of banking, new tales, and a taxing time ahead