What Paul Gregory is Writing About: Greek bail out

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Saturday, February 25, 2012

This Is The Point I Have Been Making About Greece

The Greek people not its technocrats will decide on austerity, and the Greeks do not like it.

Cartoon from The Economist, Feb. 18-24, 2012

Caption: Merkel to Greek finance minister: "I'm afraid more belt tightening may be required." Finance minister: "Perhaps you'd like to tell him."

Who Am I?

Paul R. Gregory is a Research Fellow, Hoover Institution
Cullen Professor of Economics, University of Houston. He is also a research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin. He is chair emeritus of the International Advisory Board of the Kyiv School of Economics. He serves as co-editor of the Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and Cold War. He has co-edited archival publications, such as the seven volume History of Stalin's Gulag (2004) and the three-volume Stenograms of Meetings of the Politburo (2008). Gregory is the organizer of the Hoover Sino-Soviet Archives Workshop that takes place in the summer at the Hoover Institution.
His recent publications include Lenin's Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives (Hoover 2004) and Terror by Quota (Yale, 2009).

Paul Gregory has a regular blog Forbes.com