Fwd: IU Forum THE GREEK CRISIS Monday 20 November
Frank de Jong
From: Alanna Hartzok <ala...@centurylink.net>
Date: Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 7:35 PM
Subject: IU Forum THE GREEK CRISIS Monday 20 November
To: David Triggs <theiupr...@gmail.com>
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“Greek Crisis: The Archetype of the Current Struggle of a Productive Nation against the Globalized Rent-seeking Neofeudal and Neocolonial Invaders”
Part 1 of this special IU Forum on Monday, 20 November will be co-hosted by the Henry George School in New York where people will gather in the school’s auditorium while others of us join from several countries via gotomeeting at 3:00 PM New York time and 8:00 PM London time. Connection details herein. The presenter will be Yannis Czelig, a Greek native and an active Georgist and professor living in New York. Greece has suffered a World War II level of GDP destruction during the 2010 debt crisis Without a single shot fired! It still has not recovered and despite achieving a historically unprecedented fiscal consolidation which turned a 14% deficit into a surplus within two years and a return to growth it still wabbles into recession mode and hasn’t managed to return to sustainable growth rates. All the while the Damoclean debt sword is a constant threat to the viability of the recovery efforts.
In this 2-part lecture series we present the historical background and socioeconomic context of the Greek crisis and explain how Greece has become the ideological battleground for many economic, social, political theories, ideologies and practices. We posit that from the broad spectrum of such stratagem only one comes out as the sole winner in terms of achieving sustainable growth and social progress
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