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Greece, Financialization And The Eu: The Political Economy Of Debt And Destruction Vassilis K. Fouskas And Constantine Dimoulas Palgrave Macmillan (Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2013), Xxv + 245 Pp. Isbn: 978-1-137-27344-4, Nicos Trimikliniotis

Nicos Trimikliniotis

This is a book review of a splendid book by Fouskas and Dimoulas. The shifts the story from the micro to the macro, from geopolitics to the economy, and from class to political protagonists. Overall, this greatly adds to the book’s depth of analysis and the shifting is successful as the authors integrate and synthesise their text by presenting the whole book as a constant shifting game. The book unfolded like a novel with a vast amount of empirical data – economic and sociological. The crisis in Greece, or better, the crisis of Europeanism and global financialization as experienced in …