Just adding liquidity, while continuing current austerity policies, will not reignite the Spanish economy.

After Austerity

Finland, a staunch supporter of firm austerity policies, is in negative territory for the first half of the year.

Alternatives to Austerity

The Austerity Pandemic

Austerity and Demoralization

End Austerity Now

Europe s Austerity Zombies

Austerity has failed.

The recent Italian election has shown how toxic the association of austerity policies with the pursuit of reform has become.

And policies, like austerity, that increase insecurity and lead to lower incomes and standards of living for large proportions of the population are, in a fundamental sense, flawed policies.

Austerity and Debt Realism

Europe s Irrelevant Austerity Debate

Austerity in Small Places

The Wrong Austerity Cure

The Greek Austerity Myth

Austerity killed the economy.

These countries had not been guilty of irresponsible and inflationary fiscal and monetary policies, for which austerity is the natural punishment and cure.

Fiscal Austerity Versus European Society

Unfortunately, fiscal austerity and structural reforms are at least in the short run recessionary and deflationary. So other policies are needed to restore growth.

But the austerity charge is misconceived.

Austerity Is the Only Deal Breaker

A Greek Burial for German Austerity

The Right rejects new austerity measures

It s about using deadlines to force Greece to knuckle under, and to accept the unacceptable not only austerity measures, but other regressive and punitive policies.

All countries in the Central American isthmus adopted economic policies based mainly on trade and financial liberalization, privatization and a certain austerity in public finance.

The recent Italian election has shown how toxic the association of austerity policies with the pursuit of reform has become. Anti austerity anger swept away the reform agenda of Mario Monti s previous technocratic government, leaving Italy, its future uncertain, to continue muddling through.

Taming Finance in an Age of Austerity

Fiscal austerity was supposed to restore confidence.

But Berlin browbeat him into further austerity.

In the former case, current German policies toward the eurozone crisis will not change, despite austerity fatigue in the eurozone s periphery and bailout fatigue in its core.

NEW YORK The outcome of the Italian elections should send a clear message to Europe s leaders the austerity policies that they have pursued are being rejected by voters.

What does this imply for Europe s austerity debate?

Austerity induced suffering is particularly extreme in Greece.

No longer possible to tolerate your face austerity.

Instead, they have every incentive to demonstrate the success of their tough love policies by easing austerity to accelerate economic growth, not only in Greece but throughout the eurozone.

Syriza s economic program rejects the austerity policies supported or, some might say, imposed by the so called troika (the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, and the European Commission).

Yes, Europe needs structural reform, as austerity advocates insist.

But austerity is not working indeed, it is counterproductive.

Some kinds of austerity programs may indeed boost morale.

So far, however, austerity has prevented sufficient public financing.

Anti austerity protest in Athens on November 14, 2012.

Postponing the exit after the June election with a new government committed to a variant of the same failed policies (recessionary austerity and structural reforms) will not restore growth and competitiveness.

The implementation of austerity policies in the periphery has caused these countries to ask for help and request that Germany take the lead by putting more money on the European table.

The countries within the European Union (EU) must refrain from enforcing austerity policies once and for all because the alert citizens are living at the very limits of their possible sacrifices.