PERG Launch Lecture 2011: The new politics of austerity in Europe - a view from the periphery

Date: 
October 13, 2011 - 13:30 - 15:00
Building: 
Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Room: 
Gellner Room
Event type: 
Event audience: 
External presenter(s): 
Niamh Hardiman

At the PERG Launch Lecture for 2011/2012, Professor Niamh Hardiman provided a thoughtful and provocative discussion about the painful adjustments some European countries have been forced to make in the aftermath of the crisis, and discussess the governments' responses and their underlying logic, as well as their sustainability in the light of the links between sovereign debt crisis and financial crisis within the EU.

Niamh Hardiman is a Doctor of Philosophy and graduated from Nuffield College, Oxford. She currently teaches at the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin. She is a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Somerville College Oxford and is the Founding member and Research Fellow of the UCD Centre for Regulation and Governance.

 

PERG is a joint student-faculty political economy research group which brings together members from several CEU departments. It aims at fostering collaborative research among the CEU faculty and students across different departments working in the field of political economy, concentrating primarily, but not exclusively, on the area of Central and Eastern Europe. For more visit: www.ceu.hu/perg and http://pergceu.blogspot.com/.

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