TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sommers,Jeffrey William
AU  - Woolfson,Charles
TI  - The contradictions of austerity: the socio-economic costs of the neoliberal Baltic model 
SN  - 9781315812977 (ebook : PDF)
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Neoliberalism
KW  - Baltic states
KW  - Baltic States
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
UR  - http://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9781315812977
ER  -