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
How Greece Could Escape the Euro
Floyd, Norris, (2011), ‘How Greece Could Escape the Euro’, www.nytimes.com, 10 Οκτωβρίου. Greece would be in much better shape now if it had never joined the euro zone, or if it had been kicked out in 2004 when it admitted that it had lied about its finances to join the club. So would the rest of Europe. So why not get out now?
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
Greece and the Limits of Anti-Austerity
Roe, Mark, (2012), ‘Greece and the Limits of Anti-Austerity’, www.project-syndicate.org, 19 Ιουνίου. Is austerity dead? At last month’s G-8 meeting at Camp David, the German-led austerity program for the eurozone’s troubled southern members ran up against substantial resistance
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.
Greece and the eurozone: Managing the crisis
Tilford, Simon, (2012), ‘Greece and the eurozone: Managing the crisis’, www.cer.org.uk, 29 Μαίου. How the eurozone handles Greece will determine whether or not the single currency survives – and hence the future of the European Union as a whole.
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