Dear contributors and readers of the Greek Economists for Reform blog:
As editors of the blog, and on behalf of the ad hoc group of Greek economists who launched it, we would like to let you know that we have decided to suspend its operation. The blog was launched back in the Fall of 2010, shortly after the Greek crisis erupted. Its purpose was to promote informed and non-partisan public debate on key priorities and urgent needs for reform in the Greek economy. The blog was launched without any external financial support, and the costs for hosting it online were financed by the private generosity of members of the ad hoc group that initiated the effort. Neither contributors nor editors received any financial compensation. The editors screened papers for analytical and factual basis and were happy to publish different viewpoints and conflicting opinions as they came.
We are truly grateful to all of our contributors and readers for their attention and support. The blog is suspended, but the need for reforms remains acute. The entries will stay online, as a useful depository of views, proposals, and data, that can inform future debate, design, and implementation of reforms. The need for the best of economic science to be brought to bear on matters of economic policy cannot be over-emphasized.
A related collaborative effort to this blog was an edited volume,* which was published in English by MIT Press and in Greek by Crete University Press, and which details concrete analyses and proposals for reforms in a number of vital sectors or aspects of the Greek economy. A number of contributors to this blog worked on this volume.
We hope that the blog articles, combined with the chapters in the edited volume, provide sufficient ammunition for the difficult reform campaigns ahead.
The editors
Michael Haliassos, Yannis M. Ioannides, Thanasis Stengos, Dimitri Vayanos
*
Beyond Austerity, https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/beyond-austerity
Πέρα από τη Λιτότητα, https://www.cup.gr/book/pera-apo-ti-litotita/