Greece
Strong on the crisis and now decent on the underlying economy. Two participant accounts sit on opposite sides of the 2015 negotiation, and Meghir and Pissarides cover the microeconomics of why Greek firms stay small.
9 books · 1 people behind it
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- BoomerangMichael Lewis, 2011
- Adults in the RoomYanis Varoufakis, 2017
- Beyond AusterityCostas Meghir, Christopher A. Pissarides, Dimitri Vayanos, Nikolaos Vettas, 2017
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Books 9
T1 Boomerang
Michael Lewis · 2011 · The Greece chapter on hidden deficits, the tax base and off-balance-sheet borrowing.
Yanis Varoufakis · 2016 · The structural case against the euro's design, from the Greek side of it.
Yanis Varoufakis · 2017 · Insider account of the 2015 Eurogroup negotiation by the finance minister; partisan but primary.
Costas Meghir, Christopher A. Pissarides, Dimitri Vayanos, Nikolaos Vettas · 2017 · The best book on the actual Greek economy: product markets, courts, firms.
Yannis Palaiologos · 2014 · Reporting on how Greek institutions failed, sector by sector.
Stathis N. Kalyvas · 2015 · Compact political economy of why the state developed the way it did.
James Angelos · 2015 · Reportage on tax evasion, disability fraud and the informal economy behind the headline numbers.
T3 Game Over
George Papaconstantinou · 2016 · Insider: the finance minister who signed the first bailout.
Jason Manolopoulos · 2011 · Written by a hedge fund manager; strongest on the bond market's role in the build-up.