Funding the Greek Crisis

Funding the Greek Crisis: The European Union, Cohesion Policies, and the Great Recession explores the sources of the Greek Crisis and how the same tactics managed to work for other countries. Without overly simplifying the Greek condition, it provides insights into policies the countries of the Euro area may need to implement in order to ensure collective cohesion and individual success. Arguing that EU preferences for autonomous investments discouraged organic development with lasting implications, the book sheds new light on the nature of regional competitiveness and public economics.

• Encompasses public economics, macroeconomics, international trade, competitiveness, microeconomics and regional development studies
• Sheds light on key policies that affect millions of EU citizens
• Examines Solow’s growth model
• Provides a different way of explaining growth from real business cycle theory

Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals working in EU economic studies and regional economics

PART I: Theory
1. Introduction

PART II: Evidence
2. The allocation of EU Funds in Greece
3. The programming of Cohesion policy in Greece
4. Greece’s Balance with the EU
5. Long-term effects and implications from the imbalanced allocation of funds

PART III: Conclusions
6. Conclusions and final thoughts
7. References

PART IV:  Appendix: Theoretical Implications
8. Potential theoretical implications