How does austerity affect society and the environment? | LSE Research | Professor Laura Bear

Anthropologist Professor Laura Bear examines the effects of austerity, looking specifically at the Hooghly river in India.
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[@bipnarvar]

The most reasonable analysis which I've heard for many years. Thank you Laura Bear.

[@Zuke89]

I beginning to notice that this talk about austerity don't bring up two very important things.
1. Does or can governments have wasted money on things?
2. Dose or can governments spend beyond their means?
If one or both can be true, then some form of austerity will be necessary for time to time. If governments are capable of starting projects that useless and help no one, then it should end those projects. If governments are capable of spending beyond their means, then they will have to cut spending at some point.

[@joshuagaglia3412]

This has lowered my esteem for LSE. Contrived and speciously presented.

[@jayantthedrastic]

You should research about how many major Suicide bombers in the west were LSE graduates.

[@kayedal-haddad9294]

Austerity is a political choice not a necessity.