{"id":11628,"date":"2015-01-28T11:49:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T16:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiplier-effect.org\/?p=11628"},"modified":"2015-01-28T12:25:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T17:25:43","slug":"jobs-for-greeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/jobs-for-greeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobs for Greeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Syriza in the driver\u2019s seat, Greece now has some hope for the end to austerity imposed by Germany and the troika.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a good short piece in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/roomfordebate\/2015\/01\/27\/can-greeces-anti-austerity-government-succeed\/syriza-is-offering-a-new-deal-for-the-people-of-greece\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.levyinstitute.org\/scholars\/c-j-polychroniou\">C. J. Polychroniou<\/a>, a research associate and policy fellow at the Levy Economics Institute. As he explains, what Syriza wants is no more\u2014and no less\u2014radical than what the USA did in the 1930s to deal with its Great Depression: \u201cthe bulk of Syriza\u2019s economic program for addressing the catastrophic crisis in Greece, which has evolved into a humanitarian crisis, is inspired by President Franklin D. Roosevelt\u2019s New Deal programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The official press is reacting in horror! Oh the horror of bringing Democracy and Pinko policies into the Officially Neoliberal EMU regime! C.J. continues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cInterestingly, the task for the implementation of the employment program has been assigned to a colleague of mine at the Levy Institute, Rania Antonopoulos, who has been appointed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europeanvoice.com\/article\/new-greek-government-sworn-in\/\">deputy minister<\/a> of Labor and Social Solidarity under a Syriza-led government.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, Senior Scholar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.levyinstitute.org\/scholars\/rania-antonopoulos\">Rania Antonopoulos<\/a> is director of the Gender Equality and the Economy program at the Levy Institute, specializing in macro-micro linkages of gender and economics, international competition, and globalization; job guarantee policies and their macroeconomic and employment impacts; social protection and poverty reduction; and the implications of paid and unpaid work on poverty indicators. She was one of the founders of \u201cEconomists for Full Employment\u201d and has been a long-time supporter of the job guarantee.<\/p>\n<p>And so, two Levy scholars have moved into government this month\u2014Rania in Greece and Stephanie Kelton <a href=\"http:\/\/info.umkc.edu\/umatters\/2015\/01\/26\/stephanie-kelton-named-chief-economist\/\">in Washington<\/a>. What will the world come to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Syriza in the driver\u2019s seat, Greece now has some hope for the end to austerity imposed by Germany and the troika. Here\u2019s a good short piece in the New York Times by C. J. Polychroniou, a research associate and policy fellow at the Levy Economics Institute. As he explains, what Syriza wants is no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[19,239,1130,218,499,452,498],"class_list":["post-11628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-eurozone-crisis","tag-greece","tag-job-guarantee","tag-levy-institute","tag-new-deal","tag-rania-antonopoulos","tag-stephanie-kelton","tag-syriza"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11630,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11628\/revisions\/11630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}