Reducing the Hellenic Financial Crisis to Its Root Cause: A Cybernetic Analysis
This article cybernetically (isomorphically) investigates the causes of the Hellenic financial crisis. It (1) describes the crisis and its commonly assessed root cause: systemic corruption coupled to the decisions of ample numbers of Greeks to endure the problem rather than resolve it; (2) reviews S...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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American Anthropological Association
[2018]
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Anthropology of consciousness
Year: 2018, Volume: 29, Issue: 2, Pages: 196-222 |
Further subjects: | B
Greece
B Phenomenology B Financial Crisis B Sociology B systems analysis B Cybernetics |
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Summary: | This article cybernetically (isomorphically) investigates the causes of the Hellenic financial crisis. It (1) describes the crisis and its commonly assessed root cause: systemic corruption coupled to the decisions of ample numbers of Greeks to endure the problem rather than resolve it; (2) reviews SYRIZA's 2015 anti-austerity campaign and identifies incompatibilities within its apparent collective purposes that imply processes more fundamental than corruption and bad faith may be causing the crisis; (3) situates cybernetics within a sociological framework to analyze those processes appropriately; (4) propositionally reduces them to a general rulethe tragedy of the commonsoperating more or less within the collective conscience of the Greek people; and (5) and exposes the parameter's self-similar manifestation in social actions that have contributed to the crisis. |
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ISSN: | 1556-3537 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Anthropology of consciousness
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/anoc.12099 |