Crises and Reforms in Greece:

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
Lecture
Crises and Reforms in Greece:
19th – 21st Centuries
Kostas Kostis
University of Athens
An examination of the patterns followed by the Greek state, from the late
nineteenth century to nowadays, in financing the modernization process. An
analysis of the causes and consequences of the overexpansion of the public debt.
The role played by the foreign factor will be shown to be essential in the
realization of reforms.
Kostas Kostis is Professor of History at the Department of Economics of the
University of Athens, where he is Director of the Economic History Division.
From 2006 until 2009 he held the Chair of Modern and Contemporary Greek
Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His
publications include: «Les Enfants Gâtés de l’Histoire»: A History of the Greek
State Formation, 18th-21st Centuries (Athens 2013, in Greek); “La Paix
Introuvable: Le Cas Grec,” in St. Audouin–Rouzeau and Chr. Prochasson, Sortir
de la Grande Guerre: Le Monde et l’Après 1918 (Paris 2008); “The Formation of
the State in Greece, 1830-1914,” in F.Birtek and Th. Dragonas (eds.), Citizenship
and the Nation–State in Greece and Turkey (Oxon 2005); and History of the
National Bank of Greece, 1914-1940 (Athens 2004, in Greek).
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
6:00 p.m.
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103
Supported by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA)