TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vélez-Hagan,Justin
TI  - The paradox of fiscal austerity: how cutting deficits saved the modern world 
SN  - 9781498571937
U1  - 338.9 VEL 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Economic policy -
KW  - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Budget deficits
N1  - Contents
Introduction: The Paradox Explained
PART ONE: WHAT IS AND WHAT IS TO COME
1 Disaster and Debt
2 How Did We Respond?
3 What We (Think We) Knew, Before We Didn’t Know
4 How’d It All Work Out?
5 It’s All Political
PART TWO: SOME INTERESTING CASES: WHAT HAPPENED WHEN, WHERE, AND WHY
6 Hellenic Hellions or Heroes of Hellas?
7 The Enchanted (and indebted) Island of Puerto Rico
8 Nipponomics
9 The Paradox of Argentine Austerity
Conclusion: Is There Really a Paradox?
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
N2  - "When financial crises initiated a global recession in 2008, massive public debt forced policymakers in the developed world to impose tough fiscal consolidations to counter growing deficits. The most effective solutions, however, were often the ones most counter-intuitive and least politically feasible, catching policymakers in a fiscal paradox"--
ER  -