practices are connected to the ?soft politics? of the crisis, which produce public consensus over neoliberal reforms such as … austerity and privatizations, and secure debt repayment from democratic interventions …

, notably Nobel Prize winner and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who claimed that Greece suffered from austerity. Because …This paper discusses why Greece has done so poorly in comparison with all other European Union countries since the … onslaught of the global financial crisis in 2008. To show what was wrong with its fiscal adjustment, this paper compares Greece …