Fiscal Austerity

Giuseppe Fontana and Malcolm Sawyer ()

Challenge, 2011, vol. 54, issue 2, 42-60

Abstract: As economic austerity threatens to sweep Europe, the highly unrealistic expectations about the benefits of government spending cuts are not fully appreciated by the public. It is unlikely that they will result in substantial expansion; to the contrary, potentially they are extremely contractionary. The strong analysis in this piece, using the British budget proposals as a key example, starkly shows that the required changes in investment, savings, and other variables by the private sector to produce growth are utterly implausible. Slow growth, or even recession, is the likely outcome.

Date: 2011
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