Austerity’s chief purpose was to depoliticize the economy after war dissolved that boundary.

Evidence

Here emerges a core argument of this book: the main objective of austerity was the depoliticization of the economic— or, the reinstallation of a divide between politics and the economy— aft er the wartime political landscape had dissolved it. In practice, the reinstallation of this divide took three forms. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 648

Categorization

• XREF: Depoliticization of the economic ties to the separation of economics and politics as a class-technique theme running through Marxian and Polanyian analyses. — connects to: Post-WWI austerity was deployed to block moves toward economic democracy. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 161; Austerity was designed to reverse workers’ revolutionary wartime and postwar gains — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 654; Fascist austerity dismantled postwar gains and re-separated economics from politics — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 193 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Post-WWI austerity was deployed to block moves toward economic democracy. #corroborates (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 161
• Austerity was designed to reverse workers’ revolutionary wartime and postwar gains #expands (0.82) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 654
• Austerity arose in response to mass political challenge to capitalism itself #corroborates (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 798
• Capitalism’s 1918-20 crisis triggered austerity as a counterrevolutionary reaction. #corroborates (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 115
• Austerity originated after World War I as a counteroffensive against working-class unrest #corroborates (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 28
• Fascist austerity dismantled postwar gains and re-separated economics from politics #expands (0.78) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 193
• World War I collapsed the economic-political divide and exposed markets’ inadequacy #expands (0.78) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 104
• Economists depoliticized austerity by presenting class-based coercion as neutral expertise. #expands (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1569