1st Edition

Evolutionary Political Economy in Action A Cyprus Symposium

246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages 77 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 77 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The world is in turmoil, the dynamics of political economy seem to have entered a phase where a ‘return to normal’ cannot be expected. Since the financial crisis, conventional economic theory has proven itself to be rather helpless and political decision makers have become suspicious about this type of economic consultancy. This book offers a different approach. It promises to describe political... Read more


List of figures



List of tables



List of contributors



Introduction



PART I



Political economy in action



1 NATO expansion versus consolidation of the EU: intra- and interclass dynamics in the context of the next Cold War



HARDY HANAPPI



2 Spanish regions under the euro crisis: did the crisis escalate interregional tensions?



MAKIKO NARITA



3 Some simple macroeconomic remarks on slower economic growth



MALCOLM SAWYER



4 Welfare capitalism versus financial capitalism during globalisation



PASQUALE TRIDICO



5 Achievements and challenges of the Chinese model of capitalism: how much can be explained by Confucianism?



KLAUS NIELSEN



6 Economies of scope: explaining liberal authority and its consequences in the Eurozone



CHARLIE DANNREUTHER



7 Inequality dynamics, (unmet) aspirations and social protest



SVENJA FLECHTNER



8 Any alternatives left? From green narratives of change to socio-ecological transformative utopias – a political economy framework



ANNIKA R. SCHARBERT, BERNHARD LEUBOLT AND MANUEL SCHOLZ-WÄCKERLE



PART II



Crisis in Greece and Cyprus



9 The crisis in Greece: a story in pictures



CHRISTIS HASSAPIS, NIKOLAOS SKOURIAS AND PANOS XIDONAS



10 Structural reform–growth nexus: an examination over time – the importance of Eastern Europe



ANDREAS ASSIOTIS



11 The vicious cycle of Cyprus’s economic crisis



STAVROS TOMBAZOS



12 Government response to the Eurozone crisis: the cases of Greece and Cyprus



SAVVAS KATSIKIDES AND GEORGIA YIANGOU



13 Manufacturing consent or informing the public? A review of recent research on how international mainstream media covered the Greek crisis



LIA-PASCHALIA SPYRIDOU AND PAVLOS KOKTSIDIS



14 Industrial competitiveness and the search for a sustainable path out of the crisis – lessons from the Greek experience



IOANNA KASTELLI AND STAVROS ZOGRAFAKIS



Index





Biography

Hardy Hanappi is a researcher at the University of Technology in Vienna, Austria, a Jean Monnet Chair for political economy of the European integration, and president of the Vienna Institute for Political Economy Research (VIPER).  His expertise is in economic modelling, simulation and game theory. More recently he has focused on the political economy of European unification.





Savvas Katsikides is University Professor and Jean Monnet Chair at University of Cyprus.





Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Socioeconomics, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria.