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Book

Counterrevolution : extravagance and austerity in public finance

Call Number

  • 338.973 C7779 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First paperback edition.

Publication Information

Brooklyn, New York : Zone Books, 2026.

Physical Description

564 pages ; 21 cm.

Summary

"This book seeks to explain the combination of austerity and extravagance that characterizes government spending and central bank monetary policy in our times"--Provided by publisher.

Contents

  • Introduction: Fiscal and monetary counterrevolution
  • Capital gains : supply-side economics and the return of dynastic capitalism
  • Wage losses : supply-side populism and the blue-collar producer
  • Infinite regress : Virginia school neoliberalism and the tax revolt
  • Constitutional austerity : Virginia school neoliberalism and the balanced budget amendment
  • Aborting America : the reproductive politics of the national debt
  • Conclusion: On fiscal and monetary revolution.

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