A high number and wide variety of protests have been organized in the UK since the implementation of austerity measures following the 2008 financial crisis. The UK government’s response to protests against austerity has been to suggest that “we are all in this together.” This sentiment has been widely publicly ridiculed because of the polarity of cutting welfare benefits whilst preserving tax h...

talking about ego, in the sufis’ works, two terms of “endeavor” and “austerity” have been sometimes used focused on each other and sometimes alone. did they have similar definitions and positions in sufis’ opinion or had they been different from each other? we claim that “endeavor” and “austerity” had had different positions and of course different definitions in old texts.  it was made clear, ...

Many governments in Europe, either of their own volition or at the behest of the international financial institutions, have adopted stringent austerity policies in response to the financial crisis. By contrast, the USA launched a financial stimulus. The results of these experiments are now clear: the American economy is growing and those European countries adopting austerity, including the UK, ...

Elevated government debt levels in advanced economies have risen rapidly as sovereigns absorbed privatesector losses and cyclical deficits blew up in the Global Financial Crisis and subsequent slump. A rush to fiscal austerity followed but its justifications and impacts have been heavily debated. Research on the effects of austerity on macroeconomic aggregates remains unsettled, mired by the di...

We use evidence from a natural experiment in Greece to study the effect of the announcement of austerity measures on road traffic accidents (RTAs). We use daily RTA data from 2010 and 2011, during which a number of austerity measures were announced, including salary and pension cuts and an increase in direct and indirect taxes. We find that controlling for other factors potentially influencing ...

While linkages between some macroeconomic phenomena and suicides in some countries have been explored, only two studies, hitherto, have established a causal relationship between fiscal austerity and suicide, albeit in a single country. The aim of this study is to provide the first systematic multiple-country evidence of a causal relationship of fiscal austerity on time-, gender-, and age-specif...

This chapter is highly ambitious in scope. It will first look at whether, from a strictly macroeconomic point of view, fiscal austerity was necessary. The conclusions are stark: for the world as a whole austerity could have been easily avoided. In a few Eurozone countries some austerity was inevitable, but unemployment at the levels we have actually seen could almost certainly have been avoided...

OBJECTIVES To complete a 30-year interrupted time-series analysis of the impact of austerity-related and prosperity-related events on the occurrence of suicide across Greece. SETTING Greece from 1 January 1983 to 31 December 2012. PARTICIPANTS A total of 11 505 suicides, 9079 by men and 2426 by women, occurring in Greece over the study period. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOMES National data ...

[1] For everyone who cares about the politics of austerity and debt resistance across Europe, or wants to get the basics about the euro crisis but doesn't know where to start-this is for you. With an emphasis on Greece, this Guide covers the why, what and how of the crisis, providing the arguments to debunk austerity, the tools for debt resistance, and lots of inspiration from social movements.