FEAR AND SCAREMONGERING

ROBERT MISIK IN CONVERSATION WITH MARKUS MARTERBAUER

FEAR AND SCAREMONGERING

How do we pay for the economic consequences of the pandemic and war?
Markus Marterbauer and Martin Schürz's plea for a better welfare state

Neoliberal economic policy sees fear as a mobilising factor. It fuels fear of poverty in old age, social decline and the patronising state. But is this what we need in the face of a pandemic, war and climate crisis?
Markus Marterbauer and Martin Schürz argue in favour of an economic policy that counteracts well-founded fears in a targeted manner, encourages the frightened, awakens hope and creates freedom. In a society in which a few people own billions, there must be no poverty and politics must not be fuelled by scaremongering. A plea for high minimum standards in a better welfare state, wages that people can live well on and a limit on wealth.

Markus Marterbauer, Chief Economist of the Vienna Chamber of Labour
Robert Misik, Author and journalist

In co-operation with Zsolnay Verlag

Markus Marterbauer, Martin Schürz
Fear and scaremongering

Publisher Zsolnay, September 2022, € 26,80
ISBN 978-3-552-07311-1