International Focus - A History of Austerity

Mark Blyth, Professor of International Political Economy, Brown University, and Jeff Sommers, Senior Fellow, Institute of World Affairs at UW-Milwaukee, join Doug Savage, Institute of World Affairs, to discuss the politics and history of austerity, the reasons it has been lauded as the savior of economic crises the world round, and the ideological underpinnings of the program of austerity.