Moralistic narratives are flexibly deployed to justify diverse austerity outcomes.
Evidence
The same morality play is the British Government’s explanation for the riots of August 2011 and the EU-IMF-Troika’s lauding of the Baltic States as austerity champions in July 2012. Morality plays cover all contingencies. — Mark Blyth, Austerity, 695
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to Mattei’s critique of austerity as moralized economic management, and to the broader literature on austerity as a discourse rather than a technical policy. — connects to: The crisis-as-government-fault narrative was engineered to justify austerity — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 950; Monetary austerity was designed to moralize and discipline economic behavior toward thrift — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 759; Austerity’s architects aimed to convert wartime sacrifice into a permanent universal norm — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 898
Broader Connections
- The crisis-as-government-fault narrative was engineered to justify austerity
#corroborates(0.85) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 950 - Monetary austerity was designed to moralize and discipline economic behavior toward thrift
#complicates(0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 759 - Austerity’s architects aimed to convert wartime sacrifice into a permanent universal norm
#corroborates(0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 898