The Greek Economy and the Crisis Challenges and Responses /

• Main Author: Petrakis, Panagiotis (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Macroeconomics.; European Economic Community literature.; Economic policy.; Social policy.; Development economics.; Economics.; Economic Policy.; European Integration.; Development Economics.; Social Policy.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.

The book “The Greek Economy and the Crisis. Challenges and Responses” targets all those who think about the present and future of this (culturally) long-lived small geographic region (Greece), to form a personal view of its social and economic problems. A society that repeats the same types of behav...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The Responsibility of Knowledge, Challenges and Responses
• The Changing World and the Greek Economy Before the Crisis
• The Pre-Crisis Growth of the Greek Economy
• The Question of Growth
• Human Capital: Education, Innovation and Health
• Cultural Values, Stereotypes and Historical Evolution
• Idiosyncratic Economic Institutions
• Political Institutions and the Distribution of Income
• Human Incentives
• The 2008-2010 Crisis and the European Stability Mechanism
• The Deeper Causes of the Greek Economic and Social Problems
• The Greek Economy After the Crisis
• The Effectiveness of Economic Adjustment Interventions
• The Medium-long Term Outlook of the Greek Economy
• Appendix: A Sectoral Proposal for Potential Growth in the Greek Economy. Climate Change, Population Ageing, Tourism and Culture. .