Tsipras the Saviour!!!! FT Newsletter/ 29 June

Greece is here to help  That's the message from Alexis Tsipras in a wide-ranging interview with the FT's Jim Brunsden. Once a leftist firebrand who brought his country to the brink of a eurozone exit, Tsipras has turned into the EU's model pupil. And he seems to be enjoying every minute of it:

“I think the most important achievement is that Greece was for more than five years a part of the problem in Europe, now it’s part of the solution"

ss.  That is British humour: a little mischievous! 

Putting the Greek debt problem to rest | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal

Putting the Greek debt problem to rest | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal

Barry Eichengreen, Emilios Avgouleas, Miguel Poiares Maduro, Ugo Panizza, Richard Portes, Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Charles Wyplosz, Jeromin Zettelmeyer



https://cepr.org/sites/default/files/policy_insights/PolicyInsight92.pdf

Ολόκληρη η συμφωνία (pdf) με Β.Μακεδονία!

http://metarithmisi.liberal.gr/post/ειδησεισ/διεργασίες-στα-κόμματα-για-το-μακεδον/

How nations come together | Andreas Wimmer at Aeon

Why do some countries fall apart, often along their ethnic fault lines, while others have held together over decades and centuries, despite governing a diverse population as well? Why is it, in other words, that nation-building succeeded in some places while it failed in others?

Bretton Woods, Brussels, and Beyond: Redesigning the Institutions of Europe | VOX, CEPR’s Policy Portal

Bretton Woods, Brussels, and Beyond: Redesigning the Institutions of Europe | VOX, CEPR’s Policy Portal

Economists have discussed extensively what to do to reform the European Project and how, but have been broadly silent on who and when. Which institutions and rules are needed, and when? This eBook shows that such institutional questions, although seldomly raised, are of fundamental importance for the future of European integration.

The Moral Narratives of Economists | Anthony Randazzo and Jonathan Haidt

Moral narratives have a substantive effect on the research conclusions of economists. This is one of the findings from a recent survey of economists that we conducted, which found a relationship between views on empirical economic propositions and moral judgments. ...

"How we entered the age of the strongman" | John Gray, the New Statesman

"Liberals have consistently misread the present – and their complacency is pushing us into a new authoritarian era."... eh?