[MGSA-L] A Crisis Examined at Brown University

[Amanatidou, Elissavet]

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*A Crisis Examined: Reflections on Greece's options on the eve of the
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*May 2, WEDNESDAY, 7:00pm*

 *Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street*

*Providence*

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*Financial Times' *Martin Wolf predicts that given the existing
constraints, if all goes well, Southern Europe is in for a gloomy decade of
stagnation, low wages and high unemployment. There is simply no easy way
out of the tragedy, it is said, and Greece is at the center of it. The
field of discussion is vast but two questions stand out:

1. The current consensus that informs the Troika's wisdom is that that
austerity will be expansionary (Greece will grow to pay back its debt), if
complemented by structural reforms of labor, services and products. What is
the evidence for this? Do we buy it?

2. Are there feasible different ways out of the house of pain and if so how
would they work?

Sponsored by The Program of Modern Greek Studies, Development Studies and
the Hellenic Students Association

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*Dr. C. Ban, The Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown
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*Prof. K. Kornetis, Dept. of History, Brown University*

*Prof. S. Michalopoulos, Dept. of Economics, Brown University*

*Prof. E. Papaioannou, Dept. of Economics, Harvard University*
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*Elsa Amanatidou
Director, Center for Language Studies
Senior Lecturer, Department of Classics
195 Angell Street, Room 207
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
t: 401.863.7482
f: 401.863.2551
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/CLS/
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Classics*/
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