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Fear City (Kim Phillips-Fein)
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#NewYorkCityfiscalcrisis #austeritypolitics #municipaldebt #politicsofinevitability #publicsectorretrenchment #FearCity
Fear City: New Yorks Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-Fein is a work of history and political economy that examines New York Citys near-bankruptcy in 1975 and the broader transformation that followed. Rather than treating the fiscal collapse as a simple story of municipal mismanagement, the book argues that austerity emerged through political choices made by city, state, federal, and financial leaders. Phillips-Fein traces how repeated borrowing, declining revenues, and mounting debt interacted with ideological attacks on urban liberalism and public spending. The book also places the crisis in a wider context, showing how New York became an early model for austerity politics that later shaped other cities and national debates about the public sector. Written for both general readers and scholars, it combines archival research with a clear explanation of how financial pressure can reshape democracy, labor power, and public expectations.
- Amazon USA Store: https://www.amazon.com/dp/080509525X?tag=9natree-20
- Amazon Worldwide Store: https://global.buys.trade/Fear-City-Kim-Phillips-Fein.html
- Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/fear-city-new-yorks-fiscal-crisis-and-the-rise/id1642774869?itsct=books_box_link&itscg=30200&ls=1&at=1001l3bAw&ct=9natree
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- Read more: https://english.9natree.com/read/080509525X/
#NewYorkCityfiscalcrisis #austeritypolitics #municipaldebt #politicsofinevitability #publicsectorretrenchment #FearCity
Fear City: New Yorks Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-Fein is a work of history and political economy that examines New York Citys near-bankruptcy in 1975 and the broader transformation that followed. Rather than treating the fiscal collapse as a simple story of municipal mismanagement, the book argues that austerity emerged through political choices made by city, state, federal, and financial leaders. Phillips-Fein traces how repeated borrowing, declining revenues, and mounting debt interacted with ideological attacks on urban liberalism and public spending. The book also places the crisis in a wider context, showing how New York became an early model for austerity politics that later shaped other cities and national debates about the public sector. Written for both general readers and scholars, it combines archival research with a clear explanation of how financial pressure can reshape democracy, labor power, and public expectations.
