Introduction: austerity, aspiration and affluence -- Austerity by design: fashioning a new Jerusalem -- Austerity in transition: demobilization/remoblization -- Austerity by consensus; democratizing desire -- Lessons in austerity: styling postwar citizenship -- Austerity and affluence: another look at the new look -- Austerity and aspiration: a boy, a girl and a bike -- Conclusion: the autonomy of austerity: postwar affluence by design.
