Based on experience from two research projects, this presentation reflected on how we analyse ‘austerity’ policies and how if at all we can answer questions about the consequences of such policies. It argued that some of the most important questions can only be answered by going beyond disciplinary ‘comfort zones,’ in the same sort of way that painting and photography combined in the nineteenth century to produce new perspectives and new forms of art.
Christopher Hood, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Visiting Professor at Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government at University of Oxford