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Chris Marsh, Dominik Nagly, George Pagoulatos, Elias Papaioannou t is now seven years since the Greek crisis began. As well as reflecting the chronic deficiencies of its own institutions, the failings in Greece also reflect substantial shortcomings in international institutions. This column argues that it is time for all sides to move on, and proposes a simple debt operation for…
“There is nothing more unpredictable than the past,” experts on Soviet-era methods used to say. Government has the means to elevate its story into official history. It can create scapegoats to deflect attention from the real culprits. It can devise diversions and fictitious conspiracies. It can propagate hearsay, which with the help of unscrupulous media will become “news,” and with…
Theoretically, Greece should have been a laboratory of left-wing policies, with its terrible combination of inequality, poverty and unemployment. But how feasible are left-wing policies within the eurozone? The question is relevant, not only because of the SYRIZA-led government in Greece, but also due to the prospect of a leftist coalition in Portugal. Global capitalism is conducive to leftist protest,…
Confrontations Europe: La Revue Numéro 110 – Le plan de sauvetage de la Grèce peut-il être adopté par le peuple grec ? Kalypso Nicolaidis, professeur à l’université d’Oxford et George Pagoulatos, professeur à l’université d’économie d’Athènes