Rick Steves' Greece: Athens & the Peloponnese amazon.com
Bust: Greece, the Euro and the Sovereign Debt Crisis - By Matthew Lynn amazon.com
Greece's 'Odious' Debt: The Looting of the Hellenic Republic by the Euro, the Political Elite and the Investment Community - By Jason Manolopoulos amazon.com
Understanding the Crisis in Greece: From Boom to Bust - By Theodore Pelagidis amazon.com
The Imminent Crisis: Greek Debt and the Collapse of the European Monetary Union amazon.com
Eyewitness Greece - Athens and the Mainland - 352 Pages
Financial markets and economic growth in Greece, 1986-1999 [An article from: Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money]
Athens Demographics:
The population count for Athens was 10,964,020 in 2001. According to eurostat, in 2008 Greece had a total estimated population of 11,262,000. Of this, some 695,979 are estimated to be non-Greek.
A Greek Taverna Restaurant in Greece. Source: Big Stock Photo
June 7, 2010
Greece moves toward major changes
"The great loneliness" of the predicament in Greece
Commentary by Nikos Konstandaras at Kathimerini gives a shopping list of the ailments attacking the Greek psyche as the economic crisis continues:
"The sudden, mass reduction in incomes has created an unprecedented challenge for every Greek and for society as a whole. We all expect tomorrow to be worse than yesterday, whether we be businessmen or employees, students or pensioners. Because the pressure does not come from some foreign cause but from the bankruptcy of our economic and political model itself, we can look only to our own resources for a way out of the crisis.
...The state owes private companies more than 10 billion euros, is withholding value-added tax returns and demanding extra taxes, strangling the market further as banks have slashed their loans. The only government proposal aimed at helping companies is to make dismissals easier.
...Fear of the future, fear of our fellow citizens, is everywhere. Beyond our borders, we see that we are more isolated than ever, having no competitive advantage over other countries in the region (as when Greece was the richest country in the neighborhood and the only member of both NATO and the EU). Furthermore, our economic disaster has made Greeks the laughing stock and whipping boy of the international community.
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