Austerity, globalisation and alternatives

Alternatives to Austerity Progressive Growth Strategies for Europe

 Before the crisis there were different growth models in Europe: property bubbles in Spain and Ireland, state spending in Greece, hypertrophied financial sectors in the United Kingdom and Cyprus. All of these were based on growing, mostly private debt. They caused large current account deficits, and imploded in the financial crisis. State-led bank rescues to stabilise the financial sector mass...

Virtue and austerity

Virtue ethics is often proposed as a third way in health-care ethics, that while consequentialism and deontology focus on action guidelines, virtue focuses on character; all three aim to help agents discern morally right action although virtue seems to have least to contribute to political issues, such as austerity. I claim: (1) This is a bad way to characterize virtue ethics. The 20th century ...

Austerity and the cadaver.

The rresence of increasing numbers of allied health slUdents at colleges and universities across the nation is having a great effecl on curriculum development, distribution of resources, and use of rhysical facilities Expanded slUdel1l enrollment, coupled with decreased funding for higher education, leads to concern that valuable expel'iences necessary for adequate training of allied health slU...

Greek Nursing under Austerity

Introduction: In the past year increasing concern has been expressed on the financial austerity measures imposed on Greece and its effect on public hospital patient care. The influence of this hardship on nursing delivery care is evident as even prior to this poor staff patient ratios caused shortcuts in care practice in order to save staff time. Aim: The aim of this discussion paper is to crit...

AIDS and globalisation.