This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental disorders using data from the Spanish National Health Survey. We exploit the collapse of the construction sector to identify the causal effect of job loss. Our results suggest that an increase of the unemployment rate by...

The economic crisis in Greece: Short account of events and actors / Angeliki Boubouka -- Media and representations of the economic crisis / Angeliki Boubouka and Vaia Doudaki -- Discourses of legitimation in the news: Concepts and dimensions / Vaia Doudaki -- Analysing discourse: Legitimation...

"Drawing on Kaleckian and Kaldorian approaches, Political Economy of Contemporary Italy: The Economic Crisis and State Intervention explores the reasons behind the stagnation of the Italian economy from the 1970s, and suggests policy solutions to ease the crisis. The central thesis of the book...