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The collective volume THE GREEK CAPITALISM IN CRISIS – MARXIST ANALYSES has been translated Chinese and published in China. The book was edited by Stavros Mavroudeas and includes contributions of several Greek Marxist political economists. It was originally written in English and published by Routledge. The Chinese edition was translated in the NorthWest University (in X’ian) and published by China Economics Publishers. Several presentations of the book in Chinese...

Video recording of the talk on The Greek Saga: Competing Explanations of the Greek Crisis by Stavros Mavroudeas at NYU (24/3/2023: https://nyu.zoom.us/rec/play/2GHwJC-FSrsf7nmaHjTdTaAczfWtWS0ri3LMbY7mmP51KeBeeQSV1woJ7oHMZrXDiYzsJVG4VmKTM_5K.ekQ-W6AmRv6dcA7O?continueMode=true&_x_zm_rtaid=53eI4PcRTC6y8DFQ97VYhw.1679665946920.11ab3dbc8b14c6132f01bcf9ab31a3a7&_x_zm_rhtaid=118 [embedded content] AdvertisementΡυθμίσεις απορρήτου

Angela Merkel is stepping down, and as often happens in these circumstances (or when someone of historical importance passes; see here for my review of Thatcher and Volcker obits) there is a flood of analysis of their contributions. Merkel is no exception, and most 'serious' outlets have suggested that she was a great stateswoman, and that she managed to save the euro (an honor she often shares with Mario Draghi), the European Union and provided leadership in the midst of the vacuum caused...

Michael Stephens | April 28, 2021 Senior Scholar Rania Antonopoulos recently participated in a webinar for the European Trade Union Institute, during which she discussed the rationale behind and experience with the implementation of the “Kinofelis” direct job creation program—a limited job guarantee for Greece. Watch her presentation below (accompanying slides are here). The Levy Institute’s previous Strategic Analysis for...

Michael Stephens | April 28, 2021 Senior Scholar Rania Antonopoulos recently participated in a webinar for the European Trade Union Institute, during which she discussed the rationale behind and experience with the implementation of the “Kinofelis” direct job creation program—a limited job guarantee for Greece. Watch her presentation below (accompanying slides are here). The Levy Institute’s previous Strategic Analysis for...

Yesterday (11-9-2020) I was asked by PRESS TV to comment on the current tensions between Greece and Turkey. I expressed the opinion that these tensions and war-mongering threats are coming from both sides, that is the Greek and the Turkish ruling elites. And that the peoples of Greece and Turkey have nothing to gain from this. The two ruling elites scramble for supposed oil reserves in the Eastern Mediterranean basin. The existence of these reserves is far from certain; and also, if...

The News Bulletin of PRESS TV asked for my comments on the current tensions between Greece and Turkey regarding the Exclusive Economic Zones in the Eastern Mediterranean. The video of my comments and their transcript follows. [embedded content] https://urmedium.com/c/presstv/30191 The current tensions are part of the long-running antagonism between the Greek and the Turkish ruling elites. This antagonism goes back to the formation of nation-states in the Balkan and the Eastern...

Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis told Jacobin why he’s publishing his secret recordings of the critical Eurogroup meetings of 2015 — and why the Left around Europe is struggling to overcome Syriza’s disastrous legacy. Yanis Varoufakis during his speech in Hellenic Parliament. Dimitrios Karvountzis / Pacific Press / LightRocket via Getty INTERVIEW BY George Souvlis When Syriza was voted out of...

I will write a detailed account of my view on how to deal with the coronavirus from an Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) perspective next week. But today I want to highlight something that just ‘goes through to the keeper’ (cricket reference meaning no-one pays attention to it) but is significant in understanding what is wrong with the Eurozone. I refer to information that is contained in the latest – Annual Report 2019 – released last week by the Deutsche Bundesbank. If you juxtapose that with...

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