Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discover the contradistinctions between the neoclassical and Keynesian paradigms of economics regarding the Greek Financial Crisis. Design/methodology/approach: The answers to the questions and policies regarding the Greek Financial Crisis cannot be...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the philosophical roots of development ethics as a field of study with its interdisciplinary character. Design/methodology/approach: The conceptual and historical evolution of development ethics is unfolded through Aristotle’s philosophy....

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to determine how including the Greek financial crisis in teaching introductory macroeconomics benefits students. Design/methodology/approach: The methodology is based on the responses of a recent survey administered to students at a university in Greece....

Purpose – To examine China's reforms and successes could have been replicated to other transition economies. Design/methodology/approach – The applicability of the Chinese process as an alternative for transition economies involves an analysis of the necessary reforms regarding price...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to develop alternative paths to the transition process as a result of alternative models of transition. Design/methodology/approach – A political economy methodology to the transition process results in alternative transition models. As a result five...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to outline and compare the land ownership, land taxes and citizens' dividend proposals by Thomas Paine and Thomas Spence. Design/methodology/approach – Paine wrote “Agrarian justice” in which he argued that every proprietor of cultivated land owes to...