Austerity: the great failure

Introduction

Austere ideas for austere societies : from Aristotle to Aquinas

Austerity v. reason : from Mandeville to Voltaire

Austerity for capitalism : from Smith to Weber

Austerity for stability : from the Great War to the next

Austerity can wait : Keynes

Austerity for the state : Hayek

Austerity for the planet : green ideas of consumption

Is greed good?