Treating the Symptom Not the Condition: Crisis Definition, Deficit Reduction and the Search for a New British Growth Model

British Journal of Politics and International Relations

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 23-37

  Hay, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Austerity; Crisis; Deficit; Growth

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC POLICY; FINANCIAL CRISIS; MODELING;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84872345311     PISSN: 13691481     EISSN: 1467856X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00515.x     Document Type: Article

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