https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Thu, 30 Apr 2020 12:53:52 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/responding-to-the-crisis-food-co-operatives-and-the-solidarity-economy-in-greece-2/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:36 +0000 http://arc.local/items/responding-to-the-crisis-food-co-operatives-and-the-solidarity-economy-in-greece-2/ Continued]]> This article discusses a case of popular social response to imposed austerity and recession in Greece. It focuses on the antimiddleman movement in an Athens suburb. It also addresses the broader picture of the current Greek crisis, explaining how participants in this grassroots response extend their activity beyond food distribution, beginning to imagine modes of economic conduct and interaction different from those currently dominant in Greece. I explore their efforts to turn the food market they have established in Athens into a formal co-operative which links consumers in their neighbourhood directly to selected farmers through bonds of solidarity, and to work with others to create a network of similar co-operatives which will span the whole country. I argue that their endeavours strongly resemble the co-operativism and practical socialism advocated by important social theorists such as Mauss and Polanyi, and suggest that it may be important for the young activists in Athens to learn more about their ideas.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-sovereign-debt-crisis-why-greece-but-not-japan/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:30 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-sovereign-debt-crisis-why-greece-but-not-japan/ Continued]]> This paper asks why Japan has not yet suffered from a sovereign debt crisis, although its gross public debt as a percentage of GDP is much higher than in Greece. We use a simple stylized model to explain the occurrence of both a fundamental and a speculative debt crisis. We apply this model to both countries and derive some hypotheses about why investors are still ready to hold Japanese Government Bonds. In particular, we point to the significance of domestic debt holdings, to the central bank’s government debt purchases, to investors’ access to “safe havens,” and to the role of an autonomous monetary policy. We also analyze potential challenges to Japan’s long-term fiscal situation, resulting from its aging population. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/responding-to-the-crisis-food-co-operatives-and-the-solidarity-economy-in-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:21 +0000 http://arc.local/items/responding-to-the-crisis-food-co-operatives-and-the-solidarity-economy-in-greece/ Continued]]> This article discusses a case of popular social response to imposed austerity and recession in Greece. It focuses on the antimiddleman movement in an Athens suburb. It also addresses the broader picture of the current Greek crisis, explaining how participants in this grassroots response extend their activity beyond food distribution, beginning to imagine modes of economic conduct and interaction different from those currently dominant in Greece. I explore their efforts to turn the food market they have established in Athens into a formal co-operative which links consumers in their neighbourhood directly to selected farmers through bonds of solidarity, and to work with others to create a network of similar co-operatives which will span the whole country. I argue that their endeavours strongly resemble the co-operativism and practical socialism advocated by important social theorists such as Mauss and Polanyi, and suggest that it may be important for the young activists in Athens to learn more about their ideas.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/electoral-epidemic-the-political-cost-of-economic-crisis-in-southern-europe-2010-11/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:12 +0000 http://arc.local/items/electoral-epidemic-the-political-cost-of-economic-crisis-in-southern-europe-2010-11/ Continued]]> This article introduces a collection of essays on the elections of 2010–11 in Italy, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Cyprus and the Turkish Cypriot community. It examines the impact of the European sovereign debt crisis on electoral trends in the era of the Greek and Portuguese bailouts. After briefly examining the crisis economies, it investigates patterns of abstention, incumbent punishment and opposition success, including the rise of regional, anti-party, far-right and racist parties. The article concludes, following Krastev (Journal of Democracy, vol. 13, no. 3, 2002, pp. 39–53), that the crisis is creating ‘democracy without choices’ in Southern Europe with potentially destabilising consequences throughout the region.

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