The contradictions of austerity  the socio-economic costs of the neoliberal Baltic model /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Jeffrey Sommers and Charles Woolfson. 
 - London :  Routledge,  2014. 
 - 1 online resource (xvii, 182 p.) :  ill. 
 - Routledge studies in the European economy ;  30 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : the Baltics and the political economy of austerity / Jeffrey Sommers and Charles Woolfson -- 1. Austerity, internal devaluation, and social (in)security in Latvia / Jeffrey Sommers -- 2. Stockholm syndrome in the Baltics: Latvia's neoliberal war against labor and industry / Michael Hudson -- 3. Failed and asymmetrical integration : the Baltics and the non-financial origins of the European crisis / Erik Reinert and Rainer Kattel -- 4. The Lithuanian labor market under the impact of crisis : the formation of the new austeriat / Arunas Juska and Charles Woolfson -- 5. Balancing between exit, voice, and loyalty : labor market policy choices in Estonia / Markku Sippola -- Conclusion : the neoliberal Baltic austerity model against Social Europe / Charles Woolfson and Jeffrey Sommers -- Postscript : a very Baltic tragedy, the collapse of the Maxima supermarket in Riga, Latvia / Charles Woolfson and Arunas Juska. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781315812977 (ebook : PDF) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Neoliberalism--Baltic states.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Baltic States--Economic conditions--21st century.<br/>Baltic States--Economic policy.<br/>Baltic States--Social conditions--21st century.