This is a question I deal with almost every day - the correct answer is "we do not know". An even better answer is "we have not yet discovered the answer (and the explanation of it).
I am currently preparing the related dissertation chapter, i.e. all this inquiry on whether and how the "crisis" has affected the development and dispersion of economic aactivity without official currency in Greece. The main outline of the chapter can be found on the following presentation (in Greek)
http://economics.soc.uoc.gr/html/static_content/econ_phd/GR/Sotiropoulou/Sotiropoulou_10112011.pdf
(copy the link or open the link at the left column of the blog).
Once the paper is ready, it will also be published!
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
How environmental awareness can be practical and funny while puzzling economists
One of the articles recently published in the Journal of Innovation Economics is the updated and thoroughly corrected and (i hope) improved version of the paper I had prepared a year ago for the Conference "Environment, Innovation and Sustainable Development".
You may read the entire paper in English on the following link
http://www.cairn.info/revue-journal-of-innovation-economics-2011-2-page-89.htm#resume
(copy the link or open the link at the left column of the blog).
Below is the abstract of the paper:
How environmental awareness can be practical and funny while puzzling economists: exchange networks, parallel currencies & free bazaars in Greece
This paper is part of a large ongoing field research project dealing with economic activity in Greece performed without the use of any official currency. The schemes studied range from parallel currencies to free bazaars and from specialized exchange networks to businesses accepting used public transport tickets as partial payment by customers. Exchange and bazaars often take place via fairs and parties, some of which have already become famous and attract hundreds of people, although most of the schemes are quite recent and still develop. The scope of this paper is, therefore: a) To present the theoretical, connected to environment, issues that the project aims to deal with, and b) To present the findings of the first, qualitative stage of the field research that might enlighten us on how the environment as an idea and motive leads people to invent new ways of transacting.
You may read the entire paper in English on the following link
http://www.cairn.info/revue-journal-of-innovation-economics-2011-2-page-89.htm#resume
(copy the link or open the link at the left column of the blog).
Below is the abstract of the paper:
How environmental awareness can be practical and funny while puzzling economists: exchange networks, parallel currencies & free bazaars in Greece
This paper is part of a large ongoing field research project dealing with economic activity in Greece performed without the use of any official currency. The schemes studied range from parallel currencies to free bazaars and from specialized exchange networks to businesses accepting used public transport tickets as partial payment by customers. Exchange and bazaars often take place via fairs and parties, some of which have already become famous and attract hundreds of people, although most of the schemes are quite recent and still develop. The scope of this paper is, therefore: a) To present the theoretical, connected to environment, issues that the project aims to deal with, and b) To present the findings of the first, qualitative stage of the field research that might enlighten us on how the environment as an idea and motive leads people to invent new ways of transacting.
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Ok, one more post on "True Scenarios" show...
Copy the following link or click on it, at the left column of the blog.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKN_lDHqh_E&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKN_lDHqh_E&feature=related
"True Scenarios" ("Αληθινά Σενάρια") about barter and about Peliti network...
...they dedicated 3 broadcasts, already in spring 2010.
You can watch part of the broadcast here
(you copy the link on your browser or you open it from the left column of the blog)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_fOM8v4Ga0&feature=related
And, to avoid bothering you with continuous similar posts, you may seek on ther internet to find the rest parts of the 3 broadcasts, with the name of the TV show "Αληθινά Σενάρια".
You can watch part of the broadcast here
(you copy the link on your browser or you open it from the left column of the blog)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_fOM8v4Ga0&feature=related
And, to avoid bothering you with continuous similar posts, you may seek on ther internet to find the rest parts of the 3 broadcasts, with the name of the TV show "Αληθινά Σενάρια".
Monday, 17 October 2011
Lawsuit (& complaint to the Eur. Commission) against the Ministry of Education for the programme "Herakleitos II"
On Thursday, October 6th 2011, I filed a lawsuit in front of the Athens Administrative Court against the Ministry of Education regarding part of the funding approved for my research project "Exchange networks and parallel currencies: Theoretical approaches and the case of Greece", asking for the amount they refuse to pay for the time period since 1-6-2009 until August 2010, i.e. almost half of the scholarship from the funding programme titled “Heracleitos II - Enhancing human research personnel through performance of PhD research”.
The story is as follows: in March 2009 I submitted a proposal...
The story is as follows: in March 2009 I submitted a proposal...
Sunday, 2 October 2011
Volos TEM currency, Ovolos currency and Peliti network on New York Times!
You may read the article here
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/world/europe/in-greece-barter-networks-surge.html?_r=1
or click on the link at the left column of the blog.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/world/europe/in-greece-barter-networks-surge.html?_r=1
or click on the link at the left column of the blog.
Saturday, 1 October 2011
...And an interview of Prof. Takis Nikolopoulos
... on Solidarity Economy (in Greek)
http://reviews.in.gr/diafora/socialeconomy/article/?aid=1231127639
You may also click on the same link on the left column of the blog!
http://reviews.in.gr/diafora/socialeconomy/article/?aid=1231127639
You may also click on the same link on the left column of the blog!
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