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The first Greek modernizer : just how much of a modernizer was he? : the Charilaos Trikoupis case
Papanagiotou, Ioannis - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 38 (2020) 1, pp. 193-223
undertaking of bridging a path of capital between the advanced Occident and Greece. While it became apparent that the strategy he …
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Institutions, Trade and Growth : the Ancient Greek Case of Proxenia
Creanza, Pier Paolo - 2021
Recent scholarship contends that ancient Mediterranean economies grew intensively, contrary to standard Malthusian predictions. An explanation is Smithian growth spurred by reductions in transaction costs and increased trade flows. This paper argues that an ancient Greek institution, proxenia,...
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The Greek great depression from a neoclassical perspective
Papageorgiou, Dimitris; Tsiaras, Stylianos - 2021
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The pitfalls of external dependence : Greece, 1829-2015
Reinhart, Carmen M.; Trebesch, Christoph - 2015
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The pitfalls of external dependence : Greece, 1829-2015
Reinhart, Carmen M.; Trebesch, Christoph - 2015 - This draft: October 18, 2015
Two centuries of Greek debt crises highlight the pitfalls of relying on external financing. Since its independence in 1829, the Greek government has defaulted four times on its external creditors - with striking historical parallels. Each crisis is preceded by a period of heavy borrowing from...
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The African Origins of Greek Philosophy : Ancient Egypt in Retrospect
Anakwue, Nicholas - 2018
The demand of philosophizing in Africa has faced a history of criticism that has been particularly Eurocentric and strongly biased. However, that trend is changing with the emergence of core philosophical thinking in Africa. This paper is an attempt to articulate a singular issue in this...
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The Determinants of Households’ Savings During Recession : Evidence from Greece
Kostakis, Ioannis - 2013
the level of households' savings in Greece due to the financial crisis in Greece. Methods: Data were drawn from 800 …
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Watching the Great Sea of Beauty : Thinking the Ancient Greek Mediterranean
Güthenke, Constanze - 2009
This is a contribution to be published in a volume entitled Mediterranean Studies, edited by Roberto Dainotto and Eric Zakim for the Modern Language Association (MLA), as part of a new MLA series on Transnational Literatures. The editors had asked their contributors to respond to their...
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Engineering the Rule of Law in Ancient Athens
Fleck, Robert K. - 2017
Scholars typically regard the “rule of law” – a stable and predictable process by which laws are implemented, enforced, and changed – as a cornerstone of good governance and a key factor supporting economic growth. Yet establishing the rule of law involves a tradeoff: ex ante commitment...
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Historical Cycles of the Economy of Modern Greece From 1821 to the Present
Alogoskoufis, George - 2021
This paper reviews and interprets the history of the economy of modern Greece, from the eve of the war for independence …. Compared to the first Greek state, Greece managed to almost triple its national territory, to increase its population by almost … international factors contributed to economic and social development. Greece seems to have largely achieved many of its national …
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