I agree, Raghu. And also with your previous comment. On Sep 24, 2015, at 1:41 PM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Marvin Gandall <[email protected]> wrote: > These changes are what underlies the shift of the political centre of > gravity to the right - to subtracting from, rather than adding to, the rights > and benefits won in the preceding period by the working class, ie. to > austerity. > > > Btw, I'd also quibble with this expansive definition of "austerity". I think > the term should be reserved for something important and specific: policies of > reduced spending on government programs of all kinds, usually combined with > low inflation. > > These ideas have been around for a long time of course, but they became > fashionable among official policymakers in a specific time period: > 2010-present coinciding with the Euro crisis and the Tea party movement in > the US. > -raghu. > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
