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...

"We explore a view of the crisis as a shock to investor sentiment that led to the collapse of a bubble or pyramid scheme in financial markets. We embed this view in a standard model of the financial accelerator and explore its empirical and policy implications. In particular, we show how the...