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Institutional change in Greek industrial relations in an era of fiscal crisis
Voskeritsian, Horen; Kornelakis, Andreas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
system and to evaluate the direction of change, using insights from the varieties of capitalism literature. In this strand of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744857
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Institutional Change in Greek Industrial Relations in an Era of Fiscal Crisis
Voskeritsian, Horen; Kornelakis, Andreas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
system and to evaluate the direction of change, using insights from the varieties of capitalism literature. In this strand of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686663
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Private investment and political uncertainty
Stasavage, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
Recent theoretical and empirical work has demonstrated a clear negative link between macroeconomic and political uncertainty and levels of private investment across countries. This result raises the question what institutions might help reduce this uncertainty, in particular by allowing host...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745744
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Capitalist divination: popularist-speculators and technologies of imagination on the Hooghly River
Bear, Laura - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
Economic theory and technocratic policy have long understood economic action to be a communicative activity. From Laplace and Adam Smith to current liberalisation fiscal policy in India designed to produce price signals and entrepreneurial behaviour this conceptualisation has been dominant....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274873
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Rage and Protest: The case of the Greek Indignant movement
Simiti, Marilena - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
In Greece a mass movement known as the Aganaktismeni (the Indignant) became the main agent of social resistance to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010754016
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(When) does austerity work? On the conditional link between fiscal austerity and debt sustainability
Monastiriotis, Vassilis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
consolidation policies (austerity). Fuelled by the huge contraction experienced by some ‘bailout countries’, and especially Greece …, a new consensus seems to have emerged, that “austerity doesn’t work”. Yet, many Eurozone countries have seen a … adverse growth effects of austerity being very short-lived. The literature has only recently shifted its attention to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126268
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Transcending the great foreign aid debate: managerialism, radicalism and the search for aid effectiveness
Gulrajani, Nilima - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
The Great Aid Debate pits those who are radically opposed to foreign aid against those who champion its reform to achieve greater aid effectiveness. This paper offers an analysis of this debate by introducing a heuristic distinction between aid 'radicals' and aid 'reformers'. The radical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744969
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Healthcare reform: the US policy debate
Cooper, Zack - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
The ability of the next US president to rein in spending on healthcare and improve the productivity of the healthcare system is largely going to determine the country’s fiscal future. That is one of the conclusions of the latest in a series of US Election Analyses , published by the Centre for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126302
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Personalization according to politicians: a practice theoretical analysis of mediatization
Driessens, Olivier; Raeymaeckers, Karin; Verstraeten, Hans - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
Following the evolution towards media-saturated societies, this article presents practice theory as an alternative framework for mediatization studies. We discuss how it can help us grasp the diversity of social and cultural changes related to the highly integrated media. This is demonstrated by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126677
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Inequality in Greece: an analysis by income source
Papatheodorou, Christos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998
of income inequality in Greece. The results suggest that entrepreneurial income is the most significant contributor to … overall inequality in Greece. It is also shown that there is a weak redistributive impact of taxes and social security …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928797