When we have shuffled off this Greek coil

Tom McDonnell13/09/2011

Tom McDonnell: The sounds out of Germany are becoming more confused by the day. Increasingly there is a growing expectation of a Greek default. Yanis Varoufakis asks whether Greece is finished over at the Social Economic Journal.
While a Greek default may be inevitable Yanis argues that Germany will not allow Greece to default before the Germans have put in place a plan for splitting Greece’s monetary system from that of the surplus countries. He fears the German plan will precipitate an uncontrolled disintegration of the Eurozone leading to a hard recession across the continent.

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Tagged with: debt crisiseurozoneGermanyGreece

Dr Tom McDonnell

McDonnell, Tom

Tom McDonnell is senior economist at the NERI and is responsible for among other things, NERI's analysis of the Republic of Ireland economy including risks, trends and forecasts. He specialises in economic growth theory, the economics of innovation, the Irish and European economies, and fiscal policy. He previously worked as an economist at TASC and before that was a lecturer in economics at NUI Galway and at DCU. He has also taught at Maynooth University.

Tom obtained his PhD in economics from NUI Galway.


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