Clara Mattei: The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
L2.84 NB"In The Capital Order, political economist Clara E. Mattei explores the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originating motives: the protection of capital—and indeed capitalism—in times of social upheaval from below. Mattei traces modern austerity to its origins in interwar Britain and Italy, revealing how the threat of working-class power in the years after World […]