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New Perspectives on the Greek Revolution: An International Conference

Date: 18/09/2021Author: George Alogoskoufis 0 Comments

Friday, September 24 and Saturday, September 25, 2021

You are cordially invited to New Perspectives on the Greek Revolution: An International Conference, a two-day virtual event co-sponsored by The Seferis Chair of Modern Greek Studies (Harvard University) and The Karamanlis Chair of Hellenic & European Studies (The Fletcher School at Tufts University).

The conference will take place virtually on Friday, September 24 and Saturday, September 25, 2021. The conference includes five panel discussions featuring 20 distinguished scholars and opening remarks by Stratos Efthymiou, Consul General of Greece in Boston; Prof. Panagiotis Roilos, Seferis Chair; and Prof. Constantine Arvanitopoulos, Karamanlis Chair.

The full conference program can be viewed here and registration for the conference is available here. We hope that you can join us!

The presentation of George Alogoskoufis, The Three Historical Cycles of the Greek Economy: From 1821 to the Present, takes place on Saturday, 25 September, in panel V, 7:45-9:00pm Athens time.

Link to the Full Program of the Conference, Seferis Chair,

Link to the Full Program of the Conference, Karamanlis Chair

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The origins of the post-2010 Greek crisis and the pre-conditions – economic, political and institutional - for a sustained recovery of the Greek economy were examined recently by a number of prominent academics, many of whom possess extensive political experience in Greece. A selection of their contributions, first presented in a workshop at the London School of Economics, in December 2018, and a conference at the Fletcher School of Tufts University in April 2019, is collected in this e- book, edited by the organisers, George Alogoskoufis and Kevin Featherstone. With ramifications for both Greece and the Euro-Area as a whole, the contributions consider the constraints that derive from the structural linkages between the domestic and the European levels. While concerned with the core economic agenda, they place it within its political, social, and institutional contexts in order to have a more complete assessment. They ask what scope there is for recovery, the priorities that need to be set, and the prospects for their attainment. Many of the chapters have been updated to take into account developments since the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. More details on the 2018 workshop and the 2019 conference that led to this e-book can be found in the link below.

This book from the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) deals with the implications of the exchange rate regimes and capital flows of the 1990s for government macroeconomic policy-making and EC policy co-ordination. Under the fixed exchange rates of the 1950s, economists and policy-makers had a much clearer idea of the nature of the external constraints. The commitment to defending the exchange rate is stronger in the 1990s than in the 1970s and 1980s, but at the same time international capital flows are far greater and freer than in the 1950s and 1960s, with many countries able to borrow almost indefinitely and on good terms on the Eurodollar market in order to finance their balance-of-payments deficits. This volume, derived from a conference organised jointly by CEPR and the Bank of Greece, deals with these issues in depth and includes both cross-country comparisons and case studies of individual countries.

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