{"id":21557,"date":"2022-11-12T04:10:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T04:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=21557"},"modified":"2022-11-12T04:29:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T04:29:31","slug":"austerity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=21557","title":{"rendered":"Austerity&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Court-Painter-Austerity-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21564\" width=\"1000\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Court-Painter-Austerity-.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Court-Painter-Austerity--300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Court-Painter-Austerity--768x535.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Court Painter portrait of Clara E.  Mattei <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism&nbsp;<\/em>by Clara E. Mattei, published by the University of Chicago Press. \u00a9 2022 by the University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CLICK LINK FOR VIDEO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ofFR1mD2UOM\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ofFR1mD2UOM\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/ofFR1mD2UOM<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Excerpted from publication<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Austerity has been so widespread in its uptake over the last century that it has become largely undetectable: the economics of austerity, with its prescribed budgetary cuts and public moderation, is largely synonymous with today\u2019s economics.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;&nbsp;While austerity policies may not be identified by name, they underscore the most common tropes of contemporary politics: budget cuts (especially in welfare expenditures such as public education, health care, housing, and unemployment benefits), regressive taxation, deflation, privatizations, wage repression, and employment deregulation. 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Mattei, published by the University of Chicago Press. \u00a9 2022 by the University of Chicago Press. CLICK LINK FOR VIDEO Excerpted from publication: &#8216;Austerity has been so widespread in its uptake over the last century that it has become largely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=21557\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Austerity&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21557"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21570,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21557\/revisions\/21570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}