Oxfam book: Be Outraged: There are alternatives.

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Be Outraged: There are alternatives

An international group of economists and social scientists argue in this book that austerity is bad economics, bad arithmetic, and ignores the lessons of history. They are outraged at the narrow range of austerity policies which are bringing so many people around the world to their knees, especially in Europe. ‘Be Outraged’ argues that austerity measures and cutbacks are reducing growth and worsening poverty and that there are alternatives – for Britain, Europe and all countries that currently imagine that government cutbacks are the only way out of debt.

CONTENTS
Summary
Page 1
1. Alternatives exist
Page 10
2. What went wrong?
Page 13
3. Putting it right
Page 16
4. Unemployment: a human waste, a triple tragedy
Page 18
5. Building caring economies based on gender equality
Page 29
6. Reducing inequality, a recovery for all, not just the few
Page 36
7. Transforming the financial sector from bad master
to good servant
Page 46
8. Supportive action by international institutions
Page 52
9. Action speaks louder
Page 61
References
Page 65