Read all content provided for week 13. You are responsible for answering one of the questions (or more if you feel so inclined) and posting your response in this discussion. Responding critically with the content in mind, your answers should be around a paragraph in size or more. Reference the content in your answers for credit.
Questions:
- Give examples from the assigned readings of the different types of austerity policy—i.e. the austerity trinity.
- What are the long-term consequences of an austerity policy regime on the general population versus the top income brackets.
- What similarities can we find between austerity in Italy and Britain in the 1920s in relation to austerity in Chile? Is the relationship between technocracy and authoritarianism and the strategy of consensus with coercion still present today?
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