Mark Blyth

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Mark Blyth

Mark McGann Blyth (born September 29, 1967 ) is a Scottish political scientist. He is Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Political Science at Brown University . He became popular with the general public through his work Austerity. The History of a Dangerous Idea (2013), which was voted Best Book of 2013 by the Financial Times .

Life

Blyth grew up in poor circumstances in Dundee , Scotland, as a half-orphan with his grandmother. He received his doctorate in political science from Columbia University in 1999 and taught at Johns Hopkins University from 1997–2009 . He describes himself as "a child of the [British] welfare state", which has allowed him to "study and become a professor at an Ivy League university in the USA".

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Blyth is primarily concerned with "the history of ideas and their effects on political action". His bestseller Austerity. The History of a Dangerous Idea (Oxford University Press, 2013) looks at the causes of the European financial crisis by critically examining austerity as a supposed means of crisis management. Under the title How Europe breaks down: The failed idea of ​​austerity policy , the book was also published in German in 2014 and was awarded the Hans Matthöfer Prize for Business Journalism .

In his review, Wolfgang Streeck says: “Mark Blyth has brilliantly shown that Austerity does not work. However, he has failed to consider the possibility that expansion may not work either. "

Works (selection)

  • Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge University Press, New York 2002.
  • Austerity. The History of a Dangerous Idea. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Request a review copy from Oxford University Press
  2. ↑ a b Blyth, Mark. Research profile via VIVO (software)
  3. ^ A b c Romain Leick: Germany can't do that . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 2013 ( online interview with Mark Blyth).
  4. ↑ Mark Blyth: Austerity. The History of a Dangerous Idea . Oxford University Press, 2013.
  5. ↑ Video and reviews from the publisher
  6. ↑ Will Expansion Work? On Mark Blyth, Austerity: The history of a dangerous idea. In: Comparative European Politics , 2013, 11, pp. 722–728. doi: 10.1057 / cep.2013.23
personal data
SURNAME Blyth, Mark
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McGann Blyth, Mark (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 29th September 1967