ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY

Greece’s Political ‘Center’ Under Threat

November 17, 2013   ·   0 Comments

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By Costas Panayotakis: As the economic and social catastrophe produced by austerity policies in Greece deepens...

CP3

Greece and Weimar

By Costas Panayotakis: The economic crisis, political and economic polarization, and the meteoric rise of the Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party...

Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Europe’s Moral Compass? Not!

By Costas Panayotakis: In a recent piece, Roger Cohen claims to uncover “the Euro’s morality lesson”...

European Union

Ross Douthat, Prisoner of Ideology

By Costas Panayotakis: A mark of ideological discourses designed to legitimize oppressive and undemocratic systems of power is their mix of half-truths with wildly false or ...

Greece Racism

Greek Anti-Racism Bill: A Source of Political Instability?

By Costas Panayotakis: On May 29, 2013 The New York Times ran an article on the tensions within Greece’s governing coalition that have been triggered by the anti-racism bill prepared by the Greek Minister of Justice...

European Youth Unemployment

A Story About Nothing

By Costas Panayotakis: A headline on the front page of the Business section of the New York Times recently caught my attention. Announcing a story in ...

European Financial Stability

The Eurocrats’ Response

By Costas Panayotakis: The disastrous handling of the current crisis by the European political and economic elites explains why Europe’s attempt to recover from the crisis ...

Matthew Goldstein

The CUNY Chancellor and His Standards

By Costas Panayotakis: On April 13, Ariel Kaminer’s “Longtime CUNY Chancellor to Step Down After Pushing Higher Standards” reported on Matthew Goldstein’s decision to step down as chancellor of the City University of New York...

Italian Elections

The ‘Populists’ and the ‘Experts’

By Costas Panayotakis The reporting by the New York Times of the recent election in Italy suggests, yet again, that confusion regarding the European crisis continues ...

Greek Crisis

‘Resolving’ the Greek Crisis

By Costas Panayotakis: Some people never learn (or at least they pretend not to).  Edward P. Joseph and Anna Triandafyllidou’s ‘Resolve the Real Greek Crisis’ is ...

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