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The Eurozone’s Arrested Adolescence: Sketching a Way Out of the Crisis

 Erixon, Fredrik, (2012), “The Eurozone’s Arrested Adolescence: Sketching a Way Out of the Crisis”, The European Centre for International Political Economy Policy Brief, Ν.06/2012. The Eurozone crisis has been reinforced and prolonged by leaders’ inability to agree on robust and credible crisis responses. Individual governments are experiencing sovereign deficit and debt crises, but not the Eurozone at large. Its fiscal position is manageable. The Eurozone is rather going through a …Read More

“Exhausted” Greeks start to see extremism as a way out of crisis

Katsikas, Dimitris, (2012), ‘”Exhausted” Greeks start to see extremism as a way out of crisis’, www.publicserviceeurope.com, 16 Νοεμβρίου. For the Greek people, these past few weeks have been an emotional rollercoaster ride. Following weariness from protracted and bitter negotiations with the Troika – the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and European Commission – which often threatened the cohesion of the governing coalition, came the distress of realising the severity …Read More

Απρονοησία και Νέμεση: ελληνική κρίση 2001-2011

Βασιλάκης, Μανώλης (επιμ), (2012), Απρονοησία και Νέμεση: ελληνική κρίση 2001-2011, Αθήνα, Athens Review of Books. Η ελληνική κρίση μέσα από τις σελίδες της Athens Review of Books. 45 δοκίμια από 33 γνωστούς επιστήμονες για τη δεκαετία 2001-2011 της κίβδηλης ευμάρειας, όπου μεσουράνησε ο οίστρος της ακολασίας. «Ακολασίας» με όλες τις σημασίες της λέξης, δηλαδή τόσο την ατιμώρητη διασπάθιση των ευρωπαϊκών κονδυλίων και των δανείων, του δημόσιου πλούτου, όσο και την …Read More

What History Can Explain About Greek Crisis

Bennhold, Katrin, (2012), ‘What History Can Explain About Greek Crisis’, www.nytimes.com, 6 Ιουνίου. The decision to suspend Greece from the common currency became inevitable when it emerged that Athens had fiddled with the accounts yet again amid chronic economic weakness, forfeiting what credibility in the international arena it still had left.

Dimitris A. Sotiropoulos: The paradox of non-reform in a reform-ripe environment: lessons from post-authoritarian Greece

Sotiropoulos, A., Dimitris, (2012), “The paradox of non-reform in a reform-ripe environment: lessons from post-authoritarian Greece”, Kalyvas, St., Pagoulatos, G., and Tsoukas, H., (eds), From Stagnation to Forced Adjustment: Reforms in Greece, 1974-2010, London and New York: Hurst Co. and Columbia University Press. In May 2010, following the Memorandum of Understanding between the Greek government and the Troika (IMF, EU and ECB), a rescue package was offered to Greece, in …Read More

Οικονομική Κρίση και Ελλάδα

Συλλογικός τόμος Εταιρείας Πολιτικής Οικονομίας, (2012), Οικονομική Κρίση και Ελλάδα, Αθήνα, Δάρδανος. Οι συγγραφείς του τόμου αντιπαρατίθενται κριτικά στην ορθόδοξη σχολή σκέψης, την οποία θεωρούν υπεύθυνη για την αδυναμία πρόβλεψης και ερμηνείας της παρούσας διεθνούς χρηματοπιστωτικής κρίσης. Αναλύουν τις διεθνείς διαστάσεις της κρίσης, τις αιτίες της δημοσιονομικής κρίσης της ελληνικής οικονομίας, τα προβλήματα του ισοζυγίου των τρεχουσών συναλλαγών, τη διεθνή ανταγωνιστικότητα και την κλαδική διάρθρωση της ελληνικής οικονομίας, καθώς και …Read More

Greekonomics: The Euro Crisis and Why Politicians don’t get it

Pryce, Vicky, (2012), Greekonomics: The  Euro Crisis and Why Politicians don’t get it, Biteback Publishing. Economist Vicky Pryce reflects on the current crisis in the Euro Zone its causes and how Europe has responded, and offers her thoughts on what might and what needs to happen if the Euro is to survive in its current form. She pays particular attention to Greece, the country of her birth, the country first …Read More