CALL FOR PAPERS

Reconstruction of Production in Greece:

study the past,plan for the future

The problem of restructuring production in Greece becomesincreasingly urgent. Nevertheless, recent relevant studiesfall significantly shorter compared to those scientific analyses and the resulting proposals that took place during the first post-war decade. This indicates anything but a momentum for overcoming the impasses of modern Greek society and economy.

We believe that we have much to learn from those pioneering scientific studies and, thereby, to design updated and safe policies for facing the extremely critical period we live in. Moreover, we think that, taking into account the newest theoretical information and empirical data, we should contribute to the opening of a public, scientifically documented, discussion for the reconstruction of production in our country and for the respective institutional changes that will strengthen it.

Based upon this acknowledgement, the Department of Economics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Department of Economics of the University of Macedonia and the Institute for Social Research Dimitris Mpatsis, in collaboration with the Department of Marketing of the Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki and the support of the Political Economy Research Group (PERG) and the Association of Economists of Thessaloniki organize aConference on the:

Reconstruction of Production in Greece:

study the past,plan for the future.

whichwillbehostedonFriday27 andSaturday28 November2015 inthe Department of Economics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

At the heart of our Conference's interest are studies on the causes of current “Great Depression” and how this occurred in Greece, from 2008 onwards, as well as papers that propose alternative plans of economic policy for reconstructing theproductive activities and relationships in the country. We also welcome papers of economic-historical content focusing on the relevant suggestions of Greek economists in the 1940s (Kyriakos Varvaressos, Xenophon Zolotas and Dimitris Mpatsis amongothers).

Specifically, participantsareexpectedtocontributeinthefollowing, indicativetopics:

  • Causesof “GreatRecession” and relevant policies, usual and alternatives.
  • Explicit and implicit objectives of Troika and the Greek Governments.
  • Economic, policy, legal and ideological implications of “European Integration” and “Globalization” in Greece.
  • Unemployment: causes, socio-economicimplications, relevantpolicies.
  • Theclassstructure, incomedistributionandthesituationoftheworkingclassinGreece.
  • Reconstruction of the Greek financial and banking system.
  • Requiredandfeasiblestructuraltransformationsof the Greek economy.
  • DevelopmentplansandinstitutionalframeworksintheGreekeconomy, withinandoutsidetheEurozoneandtheEuropeanUnion.
  • Perspectivesforrestructuring the Eurozone and the European Union.
  • TransatlanticTradeandInvestment Partnership and the implications the European South, specifically for Greece.
  • Meta-capitalisticformsofnationaldevelopmentandinternationaleconomic cooperation: past, present and future.

Submission and Selection of Abstracts

Scholarshavetosubmittheirabstract(notmorethan 300 words) till 15 October 2015 in . In the submitted abstracts they have to mention the title of the paper, the name(s) of the (co-)author(s), the affiliation(s) and the email address of the corresponding author(s). The scientific committee of the Conference will decide upon accepting the submitted abstracts and will notify all the authors by 30 October 2015.

SubmissionofFull PapersandPublication

Fullpapershavetobesubmittedby15 November 2015in owing the necessary review, presented papers will be published in the proceedings of the Conference.

ScientificCommittee

VasilisChouliaras, Association of Economists of Thessaloniki.

TheodorosMariolis, Department of Public Administration – Panteion University and Institute for Social Research Dimitris Mpatsis.

SavvasMavridis, Department od Marketing – ΑΤΕΙThessaloniki.

PersefoniTsaliki, Department of Economics – AUTh and.PERG.

LefterisTsoulfidis, Department of Economics – UoM and PERG.

GrigorisZarotiadis, Department of Economics – AUTh and Institute for Social Research Dimitris Mpatsis.

OrganizingCommittee

Eirini Ozouni, Department of Economics – AUTh.

Aris Papageorgiou, Department of Economics, University of Macedonia.

Christina Paraskevopoulou, Department of Economics – AUTh

PersefoniTsaliki, Department of Economics – AUTh and.PERG.

GrigorisZarotiadis, Department of Economics – AUTh and Institute for Social Research Dimitris Mpatsis.

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