Acknowledgments -- The Austerity State: An Introduction / Bryan M. Evans and Stephen McBride -- Section 1: Responses to Crisis. Austerity Policies: From the Keynesian to the Corporate Welfare State / Gary Teeple -- Post-Democracy and the Politics of Inequality: Explaining Policy Responses to the Financial Crisis and the Great Recession / John Peters -- Austerity's Role in Economic Performance: The Relationships between Social Reproduction Spending, the Economy, and People / Marjorie Griffin Cohen -- Internalizing Neoliberalism and Austerity / Stephen McBride and Sorin Mitrea -- Expansionary Fiscal Consolidation and the "Smarter State": An Evaluation of the Politics of Austerity in the United Kingdom, May 2010 to February 2016 / Simon Lee -- Frugal Comfort from Ireland: Marginal Tales from an Austere Isle / Brendan K. O'Rourke and John Hogan -- Section 2: State Reconfiguration. The New Constitutionalism and Austerity / Stephen McBride -- Fighting the Financial Crisis or Consolidating Austerity? The Eurobond Battle Reconsidered / Dieter Plehwe -- Constructing Economic Policy Advice in an Age of Austerity / Bryan M. Evans -- Tax Havens in an Austere World: The Clash of New Ideas and Existing Interests / Richard Woodward -- Profiting off Austerity: Private Finances for Public Infrastructure / Heather Whiteside -- Austerity and Outsourcing in Britain's New Corporate State / Stephen Wilks -- Austerity and the Non-profit Sector: The Case of Social Impact Bonds / Meghan Joy and John Shields -- Conclusion / Stephen McBride and Bryan M. Evans Contributors.

"This volume focuses on the state's role in managing the fall-out from the global economic and financial crisis since 2008. For a brief moment, roughly from 2008-2010, governments and central banks appeared to borrow from Keynes to save the global economy. The contributors, however, take the view that to see those stimulus measures as "Keynesian" is a misinterpretation. Rather, neoliberalism demonstrated considerable resiliency despite its responsibility for the deep and prolonged crisis. The "austerian" analysis of the crisis is historical, ignores its deeper roots, and rests upon a triumph of discourse involving blame-shifting from the under-regulated private sector to public or sovereign debt - for which the public authorities are responsible." Provided by publisher.