Introduction : the responsibility of knowledge, challenges and responses -- The changing world and the Greek economy before the crisis -- The pre-crisis growth of the Greek economy -- The question of growth -- Human capital : education, innovation and health -- Cultural values, stereotypes and...

Prologue: Global drama, Greek tragedy -- Crisis of debt and dignity -- The city and its people -- Assault without warning -- Days of reckoning -- Solidarity to the rescue -- The leisurely in spite of themselves -- Theory of crisis as liminality -- Epilogue: Resilience and praxis.