[P2P-F] Fwd: World Economics Association - call for papers

Thu Mar 13 23:55:31 CET 2014

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Date: Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 4:22 PM
Subject: World Economics Association - call for papers
To: michel <michel at p2pfoundation.net>

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*Call for papers*
*World Economics Association Online Conference*

*Greece and austerity policies: Where next for its economy and society?*

20th October - 21st December, 2014

Abstracts and papers should be submitted to:* weagreececonference at gmail.com
<weagreececonference at gmail.com>*

Contributions from *economists*, *economic historians*, *sociologists*
and *political
scientists* are welcome.
Papers falling within the broad topic of the conference though not on
aspects explicitly noted below are also welcome.

TIMETABLE:
Deadline for *abstracts:* 30 August and deadline for *papers*: 27
September, 2014
*Discussion Forum* begins on 20 October and ends on 21 December, 2014

*The conference will be divided into three parts.  Suggested topics for
each are listed below.*

*Part 1: Greece on the eve of the financial crisis - Challenges and
opportunities*

   - The Greek economy: regional development, de-industrialisation,
   research and innovation, banking sector, shipping, current account deficit,
   fragile growth, functional and personal income distribution; the role of
   transnational companies in the Greek economy.
   - Public finances and the role of the state: tax system, welfare system,
   education, health care, public debt, 'Greek statistics'.
   - The Greek society: institutions, politics, group interests and social
   actors, social inequalities and social mobility, emigration, immigration.
   - Greece in the Eurozone: financialisation, structural imbalances,
   external debt, core-periphery divisions.

 *Part 2: The Greek crisis and austerity policies*

   - The handling of the financial crisis by the EU vis-a-viz the European
   banks
   - The banking - sovereign debt crisis nexus
   - The Troika - issues of economic governance
   - Bailing out Greece, Economic Adjustment Programmes and debt
   restructuring
   - Fiscal austerity: fiscal multipliers, inequality effects of fiscal
   measures
   - Wage austerity: employment, productivity and inequality effects of the
   cut in minimum wages, wages and trade balance, wages and investment, wage
   cuts in the private sector and government revenues
   - Privatisation: Effects on the public debt over the short and the long
   run, economic and social implications
   - Labour deregulation and flexibility: changes in the labour law and
   their implications
   - The Greek  banking sector in crisis
   - Critical appraisals of the austerity programme: institutional
   background, theoretical underpinnings, implementation, international and
   intra-EU comparisons
   - The crisis of the political system and the strengthening of fascist
   forces

 *Part 3: Where to now for Greece?*

   - Public debt sustainability
   - Public debt and Welfare system
   - Growth and unemployment
   - Economic sustainability and social cohesion
   - On-going economic transformation and prospects
   - In or out of the Eurozone (fiscal policy, monetary policy, financial
   system, industrial policy, exchange rate policy)
   - The political system in a state of flux
   - The Greek society in the post-austerity era

 The failure of the austerity policies in Greece calls for radically
different approaches to the Greek crisis and for the implementation of
alternatives to austerity policies. Otherwise, the possibility of a
prolonged period of economic, social and political instability in Greece is
extremely high.  The implications of such instability for the European
Union, indeed for Europe more generally,  should not be underestimated.
The lessons of the Greek case are of a more general applicability
particularly because austerity policies are now applied in many countries
in Europe and beyond. These are the reasons which led to the organization
of the present conference.

Abstracts and papers should be submitted to: *weagreececonference at gmail.com
<weagreececonference at gmail.com>*

*Conference Leaders*

*Yannis Dafermos* - University of the West of England. Email address:
Yannis.Dafermos at uwe.ac.uk
*Marica Frangakis* - Formerly with Agricultural Bank of Greece and National
Bank of Greece Group. Currently independent researcher. E-mail:
frangaki at otenet.gr
*Christos Tsironis* -  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.  E-mail:
frangaki at otenet.gr

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