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“Analytically brilliant; crystal clear writing; forensic in its investigation; entertaining and erudite. If you want to know what the alternative to austerity is, there is no better guide.”
Danny Dorling, University of Oxford
“John Weeks is one of the most incisive critics of austerity policy. In this book he shows, in clear, non-technical language, how the mythology of ‘balancing the books’ has subverted public understanding of the social and economic purpose of state budgets, allowing governments to inflict serious, unnecessary and possibly lasting damage on ordinary citizens.”
Lord Robert Skidelsky, Warwick University and the British Academy
“John Weeks is a distinguished and worldly economist who, long before it became fashionable, rigorously, and to devastating effect, contested the intellectual foundations of neoliberal economics. His generosity in sharing his deep knowledge of economic theory, policies and systems has inspired and motivated many thousands of students, policy makers and activists. His work in discrediting the policies of austerity laid the foundations on which Labour’s Corbyn movement was built and popularized.”
Ann Pettifor, Director, Prime Economics
“Austerity is one of the greatest deceptions foisted on the British public in modern history. It was based on ideological economics designed to accelerate the dismantling of the social state and the privatization of the commons. John Weeks has been a consistent principled critic since the austerity era was launched. His scorn should be welcomed.”
Guy Standing, SOAS, University of London
“John Weeks has been one of the most powerful critics of mainstream neoclassical economics and of neoliberal economic policies in the last few decades. His analyses are razor-sharp and his criticisms unsparing, but he uses them to propose ways to build a solidaristic economy and a compassionate society.”
Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge
“John Weeks has been a vigorous campaigner against the fallacies of neoliberal economics. He is a model to us all in his energy and resilience in making the case for a more progressive economics and promoting an alternative approach to economic policy making that is sorely needed. He draws on his long and valuable experience in teaching, research and advising governments around the world. It is a tribute to his influence and his clarity of exposition that his students are now taking his ideas forward both at home and abroad.”
Susan Himmelweit, Open University
Dedication
For my son Matthew Dore-Weeks
The Debt Delusion
Living Within Our Means and Other Fallacies
John F. Weeks
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