Introduction Stavros Mavroudeas Part I: Critiques of mainstream and heterodox analyses of the Greek problem 1. Mainstream accounts of the Greek crisis: more heat than light? Stavros Mavroudeas and Dimitris Paitaridis 2. Fiscal crisis in Southern Europe: Whose fault? Thanasis Maniatis 3. Explaining the rising wage-productivity gap in the Greek economy Thanasis Maniatis and Costas Passas 4. The neo-liberal transformation of Greek Capitalism in the middle of a world capitalist crisis Demophanes Papadatos 5. ‘Financialisation’ and the Greek case Stavros Mavroudeas Part II: Marxist explanations of the Greek crisis 6. The Law of the Falling Rate of Profit and the Greek economic crisis Thanasis Maniatis and Costas Passas 7. Profitability and crisis in the Greek economy (1960-2012): an investigation George Economakis, George Androulakis and Maria Markaki 8. The Greek crisis: a dual crisis of overaccumulation and imperialist exploitation Stavros Mavroudeas and Dimitris Paitaridis PART III: Analyses of key sectors: labour market, social policy, health economics 9. Economic crisis, poverty and deprivation in Greece. The impact of neoliberal remedies Christos Papatheodorou 10. A comparative study of the structure of employment in Greece before and after the crisis Alexis Ioannides 11. Recession and atypical employment: a focus on contemporary Greek regions Stelios Gialis Conclusions Stavros Mavroudeas
Biography
Stavros Mavroudeas is a Professor of Political Economy at the University of Macedonia, Greece.
