This paper examines the economic effects of public spending onGreek economic growth over the period 1842-1938. In less devel-oped countries, such as late-19th- and early-20th-century Greece, pub-lic spending played an important role in the construction of keyinfrastructures and the provision of...

Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and politician. After serving as Greek Finance Minister in 2015, he went on to co-found the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, of which he is now Secretary- General. The author of many books and academic papers, his latest work, Technofeudalism: What Killed...

Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and politician. After serving as Greek Finance Minister in 2015, he went on to co-found the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, of which he is now Secretary- General. The author of many books and academic papers, his latest work, Technofeudalism: What Killed...

The main purpose of this article is to stress the social nature of economic rationality in the works of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill. As it will be suggested through some textual evidence, both thinkers believed that individuals and their actions depend on the social, cultural and moral frame...

The aim of this empirical research was to test the influence of some social factors such as social norms, habits and routines, which are actually constraining the entrepreneurial strategy. In order to measure the extent of these influences we have focused on informal arrangements and cooperation...

[eng] The assumptions controversy in the 1870's. The purpose of this paper is to present one aspect of the english "Battle on Method" between the Historical School and the last representatives of the Ricardian Political Economy, reformulated by J.S. Mill. One of the main points of the historist...

This article presents and critically evaluates the four Greek sovereign defaults (1827, 1843, 1893 and 1932) and puts them into a historical perspective. The argument is that each and every of the defaults was not an isolated episode in the turbulent economic history of capitalism, but rather a...