Jonathan S. Davies is Director of the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity and Professor of Critical Policy Studies, at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
Davies' new book is an urgent reminder that austerity is not merely a self-defeating macroeconomic policy but also constitutes a calamity at the local level. Yanis Varoufakis, Secretary General of the European Realistic Disobedience Front (MeRA25) and former Greek Minister of Finance