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Author Manolopoulos, Jason

Title Greece's 'Odious' Debt : the Looting of the Hellenic Republic by the Euro, the Political Elite and the Investment Community
Published London : Anthem Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (363 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List Of Figures And Tables; Preface; Chapter 1 From Buenos Aires to Athens; Chapter 2 Getting Lucky; Chapter 3 The Euro: Hard Sell, or Mis-sell?; Chapter 4 Western Branding, Eastern Legacy: A Country on a Fault Line; Chapter 5 The Looting of Greece: Scandals, Corruption and a Monstrous Public Sector; Chapter 6 Getting Unlucky -- It All Begins to Unravel; Chapter 7 The Euro in Practice; Chapter 8 Liquidity Boom; Chapter 9 The Entertainers; Chapter 10 A Temporary Bail-Out? A Crisis Made Worse by Satisficing; Chapter 11 The Man in the Arena; Notes; Index
Summary Jason Manolopoulos lends a unique perspective, based on experience of the global financial system, emerging markets and crises, European politics and Greek society, to demonstrate how one of the EU's smaller countries played a catalytic role in a crisis that threatens the future of the euro, and possibly even of the European Union itself. He digs beneath the headline economic data to explore the historical legacy and psychological biases that have shaped an on-going political drama, in a book that has profound implications for our understanding of economics, as well as the policy choices for E
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Subject European Union
SUBJECT European Union fast
Subject Financial crises -- Greece
Debts, External -- Greece
Euro -- Greece
Finance -- Greece
Debts, External
Euro
Finance
Financial crises
Greece
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780857288752
085728875X