The savaging of Greece: Jacques Sapir on the Greek crisis

Jacques Sapir

Jacques Sapir, born in 1954, is a French economist, director of studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, director of the Centre d'Etudes des Modes d'Industrialisation (CEMI-EHESS), and one of the foremost experts on the economy of Russia and of the transition from a communist to a capitalist economy. He teaches at the Moscow School of Economics, University of Moscow. He is a specialist of questions of Defence and Strategy, having worked for the French Ministry of Defence, and a specialist of the former Soviet Army. Among his best known works on economic theory figures Les Trous noirs de la science économique: essai sur l’impossibilité de penser le Temps et l’Argent.

What is Kalos?

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Reflections on Greece and the Euro (Interview with FIGAROVOX, August 23, 2015)

What future for Varoufakis? (August 15, 2015)

Backfires (August 12, 2015)

Syriza, the Euro, and a Greek opinion poll (August 5, 2015)

In defence of Varoufakis (July 31, 2015)

Greece, the left and left of left (II) (July 27, 2015)

Greece, the left and left of left (I) (July 25, 2015)

Crises (July 19, 2015)

Lessons of the Greek Euro-crisis (July 16, 2015)

The Euro as Diktat and delirium (July 15, 2015)

Capitulation (July 13, 2015)

Europe at the peril of the Euro (July 13, 2015)

Conditions for a successful "grexit" (July 12, 2015)

Tsipras' treason? (July 11, 2015)

Dramatization, capitulation, rupture (July 9, 2015)

OXI (No!) (July 6, 2015)

Crises and uncoverings (July 4, 2015)

Greece: defence of democracy (July 2, 2015)

A European tyranny? (June 29, 2015)

Three victories of Greece (June 24, 2015)

Greece: default ahead? (June 12, 2015)

Greece: negotiations at the brink (June 12, 2015)

Greece: it's time to chose (June 6, 2015)

The mechanic of default (May 27, 2015)

Greek default, European bankruptcy (May 26, 2015)

Euro, Greece, and a referendum (May 15, 2015)

Tsipras' big swing (April 8, 2015)

The GREXIT hypothesis (February 26, 2015)

The Greece Euro-group agreement (February 22, 2015)

A national moment (February 13, 2015)

The Frankfurt ultimatum (February 6, 2015)

Greece's brinkmanship (February 4, 2015)

Germany between a rock and a hard place (January 30, 2015)

SYRIZA's message of hope (January 27, 2015)

The Chancellor and the blind (January 6, 2015)

Greece at bay (March 9, 2014)

Greece: at the edge of the abyss (June 18, 2013)

The slashed veins of Greece... and Cyprus too (March 17, 2013)

Greece: the road to insolvency (February 16, 2013)

Greece: latest news of a tragedy (December 9, 2012)

Greece - a crime is being committed before our very eyes (November 15, 2012)

How Papandreou could have avoided the Merkozy Diktat (November 16, 2011)

...and the Cyprus crisis

Some lessons of the Cyprus crisis (April 1, 2013)

Cyprus: real time assessment (March 27, 2013)

Cyprus: between Germany and Russia (March 23, 2013)

Russia and Cyprus (March 18, 2013)

Cyprus: Draghi resorts to monetary blockade (March 20, 2013)

The Cyprus problem and its consequences (March 18, 2013)

The savaging of Greece