Author Kim Phillips-Fein discusses her new book, 'Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics.'

In a starred review, Publishers Weekly noted that the 1970s fiscal crisis "shook New York to its core."

The author "argues that, although the city would go on to emerge from the crisis seemingly unscathed, its robust brand of social democratic politics would be lost forever. Paced like a thriller and extremely well written, the book chronicles the slow descent of the city into a fiscal abyss and its unlikely rescue by a group of hardened bureaucrats, altruistic investment bankers, and political power players..."

Then, Publishers Weekly v-p of business development Carl Pritzkat recaps the PubTechConnect conference.