[lit-ideas] Re: SYRIZA WINS! INSTANT EBOOK FROM COSTAS LAPAVITSAS ON THE FUTURE FOR GREECE AND THE EUROZONE
- From: Adriano Palma <Palma@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 08:58:48 +0000
What a scandal, fascists again in the government of a European country
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Subject: SYRIZA WINS! INSTANT EBOOK FROM COSTAS LAPAVITSAS ON THE FUTURE FOR
GREECE AND THE EUROZONE
A VERSO INSTANT EBOOK:
AGAINST THE TROIKA: CRISIS AND AUSTERITY IN THE EUROZONE
BY HEINER FLASSBECK AND COSTAS LAPAVITSAS
WITH A PREFACE BY PAUL MASON
FOREWORD BY OSKAR LAFONTAINE
AFTERWORD BY ALBERTO GARZON ESPINOSA
As Syriza comes to power in Greece, a radical anti-capitalist alternative to
Eurozone austerity
http://www.versobooks.com/books/1949-against-the-troika
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On the 25th January 2015 the Greek people voted in an election of historic
importance - not just for Greece but potentially all of Europe. The radical
party Syriza was elected and austerity and the neoliberal agenda is being
challenged. Suddenly it seems as if there is an alternative. But what?
The Eurozone is in a deep and prolonged crisis. It is now clear that monetary
union is a historic failure, beyond repair—and certainly not in the interests
of Europe’s working people.
Building on the economic analysis of two of Europe’s leading thinkers, Heiner
Flassbeck and Costas Lapavitsas (a candidate standing for election on Syriza’s
list), Against the Troika is the first book to propose a strategic left-wing
plan for how peripheral countries could exit the euro. With a change in
government in Greece, and looming political transformations in countries such
as Spain, this major intervention lays out a radical, anti-capitalist programme
at a critical juncture for Europe. The final three chapters offer a detailed
postmortem of the Greek catastrophe, explain what can be learned from it - and
provide a possible alternative.
AGAINST THE TROIKA is a practical blueprint for real change in a continent
wracked by crisis and austerity.
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HEINER FLASSBECK was chief macroeconomist in the German Institute for Economic
Research (DIW) in Berlin between 1988 and 1998, and State Secretary (Vice
Minister) from October 1998 to April 1999 at the Federal Ministry of Finance,
Bonn, responsible for international affairs, the EU and IMF. He worked at
UNCTAD since 2000; from 2003 to December 2012 he was Director of the Division
on Globalisation and Development Strategies. He was the principal author of the
team preparing UNCTAD's Trade and Development Report. Since January 2013 he is
Director of Flassbeck-Economics, a consultancy for global macroeconomic
questions (www.flassbeck-economics.de<http://www.flassbeck-economics.de>).
COSTAS LAPAVITSAS is a candidate standing for election on Syriza’s list. He is
a Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London. He is a member of Research on Money and Finance (RMF). He
was the lead author of the RMF reports published by Verso as Crisis in the
Eurozone. His previous publications include Social Foundations of Markets,
Money and Credit and Political Economy of Money and Finance and Profiting
Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All.
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“For those who…still believe Europe can be reformed to deliver social justice,
growth and high-welfare societies, the authors do the valuable service of
spelling out what that would take: the defeat not only of the mainstream
conservative parties but also of their right-wing, nationalist challengers, and
the total transformation of European social democracy in the direction of
heterodox, fiscally expansionist economic policy, and the triumph of the as yet
untested new left parties.” – Paul Mason (from the Preface)
“Demonstrate[s] with clarity that the mercantilist and deflationary policies
pursued by Germany since the beginning of EMU must carry the blame for the
great rupture that is currently threatening Europe.” – Oskar Lafontaine, Former
president of the Social Democratic Party and the Die Linke Party in Germany
“Costas Lapavitsas is part of the cadre of academics-turned-politicians forging
Syriza’s economic thinking.” – Wall Street Journal, 24 January 2015
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EBOOK: JANUARY 2015 / 144 pages / ISBN: 9781784783150/ £5.99 / $9.95 / $11.95
(Canada)
AGAINST THE TROIKA is available at a 50% discount (ebook) on our website, with
free shipping and bundled ebook. Purchasing details here:
http://www.versobooks.com/books/1949-against-the-troika
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