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Author Mavroudeas, Stavros, author

Title Greek capitalism in crisis : Marxist analyses
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (263 pages)
Series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
Routledge frontiers of political economy
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I Critiques of Mainstream and Heterodox analyses of the Greek problem; 1 Mainstream accounts of the Greek crisis: more heat than light?; 2 The fiscal crisis in Greece: whose fault?; 3 Explaining the rising wage-productivity gap in the Greek economy; 4 The Greek EU-IMF Memoranda: a problematic strategy for Greek capitalism; 5 Financialisation and the Greek case; Part II Marxist explanations of the Greek crisis
6 The law of the falling rate of profit in the post- war Greek economy7 Profitability and crisis in the Greek economy (1960-2012): an investigation; 8 The Greek crisis: a dual crisis of overaccumulation and imperialist exploitation; Part III Crisis, poverty and the labour market; 9 Economic crisis, poverty and deprivation in Greece: the impact of neoliberal remedies; 10 A comparative study of aspects of employment and unemployment in Greece before and after the crisis; 11 Recession and atypical employment: a focus on contemporary Greek metropolitan regions; Index
Summary Despite the depth of the Greek crisis, the exorbitant burdens placed upon the working people and the massive popular resistance movement to capitalist policies, there is a definite lack of consistently Marxist analyses of the Greek problem. International debates regarding the Greek crisis have been dominated by orthodox (Neoclassical and neo-Keynesian) approaches. The heterodox side of these debates has been occupied by Radical Political Economy approaches (usually radical post-Keynesian or Marxo-Keynesian perspectives). Moreover, they are dominated by the 'financialisation' thesis wh
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Subject Marxian economics -- Greece
Financial crises -- Greece
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
Economic policy.
Financial crises.
Marxian economics.
SUBJECT Greece -- Economic policy -- 21st century
Subject Greece.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317756149
1317756142