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Breaking the Economics Discipline’s Austerity ConsensusEconomics departments across the United States slavishly adhere to the mainstream consensus on austerity and the free market. The Center for Heterodox Economics thinks there’s a better way.

The US debt-ceiling ‘deal’ was a giant exercise in bipartisan class warfare | Clara MatteiThe elite consensus is clear: spending is fine when it supports military ventures, but bad when it supports social welfare

Austerity is a political choice, not an economic necessity | Clara Mattei and Sam SalourNeoliberal economists present themselves as ‘neutral’ technocrats, but they’re actually partisans for the status quo. Don’t fall for it

When Liberals Fell in Love With Benito MussoliniToday marks 100 years since Benito Mussolini became Italy’s prime minister. His first governments pursued austerity and suppressed the labor movement — earning him the praise of liberal economists both in Italy and abroad.

Saving Economics from the Economists | by Clara Mattei & Aditya Singh - Project SyndicateClara Mattei & Aditya Singh trace the roots of the discipline’s indifference to social justice to early-twentieth-century Italy.

Don’t be fooled: policymakers are quietly invoking austerity by other names | Clara MatteiFraming monetary policy as a war effort has been part of the playbook for instituting austerity policies for over a century

The Federal Reserve says its remedies for inflation ‘will cause pain’, but to whom? | Clara MatteiEasing inflation will disproportionately harm working-class people, who will reap none of the benefits down the road

The Political Rationale to Engineering a Recession: Monetary Austerity and Class WarsBy Clara E. Mattei, Assistant Professor of Economics, New School for Social Research, USA, and Aditya Singh, Ph.D. student in Economics…

“Work More, Consume Less”: How Austerity CoercesThe true purpose of austerity is to permanently and structurally extract resources from the many to the few.

Common Sense Fiscal Policy or Austerity by Another Name?An interview with Clara E. Mattei about how liberal economists help quash working class movements and her new book The Capital Order.

Austerity Is a Deeply Antidemocratic ProjectAusterity is not bad economics. It is a century-old project to undermine democracy in crucial areas of our lives.

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