{"quotes":[{"text":"Theory of public goods. Theory that if I take you euro (as an elected state government) and give fifty cents back... You will be happier and I will be satisfied.","author":"Radovan Kavický","tags":["2009","archives","economics","euro","politics","public-finance"],"id":82470,"author_id":"Radovan+Kavick%C3%BD"},{"text":"The euro, it seems, is stuck in a political no man's land – trapped between two opposing world views. And the battleground is not economics, but ethics.","author":"Martin Cohen","tags":["economics","ethics-and-moral-philosophy","euro"],"id":243085,"author_id":"Martin+Cohen"},{"text":"If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us anything, it is that supposedly worthy displays of democracy in action can actually do more harm than good. Witness a nation now more divided; an intergenerational schism in the making; both a governing and opposition party torn to shreds from the inside; infinitely more complex issues raised than satisfactory solutions provided. 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With Greece gone, who's next ?","author":"Alex Morritt","tags":["athens","bankrupt","bankruptcy","black-hole","bonds","boom-and-bust","borrowing","borrowing-money","bust","capitalism","capitalism-and-schizophrenia","capitalismo","collapse","credit","credit-challenged","credit-restoration","credit-score","creditors","crises","crisis","crisis-of-capitalism","crisis-of-confidence","currencies","currency","current-affairs","current-events","current-situation","debt-crises","debt-inheritance","debts","default","default-position","demise","depression","depression","economic-collapse","economic-crisis","economic-depression","economics","economy-bankrupt","euro","europe","european-economic-area","european-union","exit","exit-strategy","fallout","finance","finances","financial-crisis","financial-markets","financial-worries","funding","fundraising","funds","greece","greek","greek-mythology","greek-myths","greek-tragedy","grexit","indebted","indebtedness","kidding","kidding-yourself","loans-for-bad-credit","loans-for-bad-credit-rating","marketplace","markets","national","national-debt","nationalism","noose","political-commentary","political-corruption","political-expediency","political-satire","problematic","problems-in-the-world","problems-of-today","problems","problems-with-society","running-away-from-problems","savings","transparency","transparency-or-the-lack-thereof","unravel","unravelling","yoke"],"id":342642,"author_id":"Alex+Morritt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}