This category includes articles that cover various topical issues in a journalistic way, which are directly related to debt. We try to analyze aspects of economic and social policy in a way that to highlights the deeper roots of political choices.
A.D.PAPAGIANNIDIS Greece has been in more than one ways (all of them unpleasant) a case of the European-and-global system experimenting with what one might term “the debt era of the global economy and efforts to bring about methods of dealing with it, other than /further to “extend and pretend””. Let us have a look…
“Time is the best medicine” they say, and in the Greek political and social reality, this is more than true.
We all know –whether we do notrealize it or not … – that this year’s European elections will be a real crossroads for the Europe of tomorrow; Europe’s character, its very nature, therefore its prospects.
«it is like privatizing a bank in France with 65 million customers, a bank in Germany with 80 million customers, and so on. It’s not so often that a bank has almost the entire population of a country in its clientele»
In the era of the Enlightenment public and private credit relations became ever more complex and widespread. At the same time the study of political economy developed, gradually aspiring to the status of a science.Savants subjected debt to thorough analysis.
Dr Spyros Marchetos The poor indebted again Indebtedness in Antiquity arose out of stark power relations, with the weaker owing to the stronger debt, taxes, or tribute. It became more tricky with the development of the modern territorial state, roughly in the first two centuries of the capitalist system, let’s say from around 1500…