Industrial poverty : yesterday Sweden, today Europe, tomorrow America / by Sven R. Larson ; foreword by Michael Tanner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Larson, Sven R., 1965- author.

Tanner, Michael, author of introduction, etc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Europe.

Economic development.

Financial crises--Europe.

Financial crises.

Welfare state--Europe.

Welfare state.

Europe--Economic conditions--21st century.

Europe.

Europe--Social policy.

Europe--Economic policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, [England] ; Burlington, [Vermont] : Gower Publishing Limited, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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. Using Sweden in the 1990's as an example, he shows how a welfare-state crisis combined with the wrong kind of austerity policies replaces prosperity with industrial poverty. 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

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Author Biography; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 The Nature of the European Crisis; 2 Sweden: Austerity Gone Wrong; 3 Industrial Poverty; 4a Europe in 2012: Entering the Economic Wasteland; 4b Europe in 2012: Deeper into the Crisis; 5 Can Austerity Work?; 6 Way Forward; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-415-78965-6

1-315-58842-0

1-317-11707-7

1-317-11706-9

1-4724-3933-3

9781315588421

OCLC:

889675795