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Fear City New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics

Kim Phillips-Fein

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country’s largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the city was indeed billions of dollars in the red...

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It was mentioned as a book about New York's fiscal crisis in the 1970s, where it was argued that the crisis was mainly caused by the national recession, deindustrialization, and suburbanization trends, not just government spending.

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That is the historian Kim Phillips Fine, author of the book Fear City, which is about New York's fiscal crisis.

— Episode: 434. Is New York City Over?

Episode: 434. Is New York City Over?

It was mentioned as a book about New York's fiscal crisis in the 1970s, where it was argued that the crisis was mainly caused by the national recession, deindustrialization, and suburbanization trends, not just government spending.

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That is the historian Kim Phillips Fine, author of the book Fear City, which is about New York's fiscal crisis.

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