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... an all-pur-pose scapegoat for anything that went wrong in the 1960s and 1970s:stagflation in the United States, the drug culture in the United States and Europe, even the sharp increase in teenage ... (Chapter 29 and Chapter 35),although written in 2001, weren’t published until early in 2002.Most of the cross-cutting issues dealt with in these essays are as per-tinent in the post– as in the pre–9/11 ... (especially in the vicinity of the International Mone-tary Fund and the World Bank Headquarters), there is and should bea growing recognition that the acute economic setbacks in Asia, Russia, and Brazil,...

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... The Greek Economy and the Crisis .Panagiotis Petrakis The Greek Economy and the Crisis Challenges and Responses Prof. Panagiotis PetrakisNational and KapodistrianUniversity of AthensDepartment ... Financial Crises in the Global Economy . . 27010.2 The 2008 Crisis and the Real Global Economy 27110.3 The 2008 Crisis and the Greek Econom y 27510.4 The Phases of the Crisis over Time 27910.5 ... Economy and the Crisis 33312.1 The Social Perception of the Crisis 33312.2 The Medium-Term Perspective in the International and European Economy 33612.3 The IMF, Growth and Adjustment 34512.4 The...