Frontmatter
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1. Introduction
2. Theory
3. Expansionary and Recessionary Austerity up to the Financial Crisis of 2008
4. Measuring the Effects of Fiscal Policy
5. Fiscal Plans
6. The Data
7. The Effects of Austerity
8. European Austerity during the Great Recession
9. When Austerity?
10. Austerity and Elections
11. Conclusions
12. The Models in Our Book: A User's Guide
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX