{"id":3882,"date":"2012-05-07T17:10:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T15:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2012-05-07T17:10:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T15:10:56","slug":"german-adjustment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/german-adjustment\/","title":{"rendered":"German Adjustment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/06\/german-adjustment\/\" target=\"_blank\">Krugman, Paul<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It has become clear that one of the main forces behind the insistence on austerity as the answer to Europe\u2019s problems is the belief among many German opinion leaders that their own experience in the last decade shows the way. Here\u2019s Josef Joffe:<\/p>\n<p>Why [should France emulate] the former German chancellor? Because he dared tell his own electorate what neither Mr Hollande nor Nicolas Sarkozy would have uttered even on the rack. Nine years ago, Mr Schr\u00f6der warned his country: reduce social benefits, loosen up labour markets and accept individual responsibility \u2013 or else. Then he carried through with his \u201cAgenda 2010\u201d. And lo, Germany went from zero to 3 per cent growth in the two years before the crash \u2013 and back to 3 per cent thereafter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: <\/strong>The New York Times<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/06\/german-adjustment\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Krugman, Paul. It has become clear that one of the main forces behind the insistence on austerity as the answer to Europe\u2019s problems is the belief among many German opinion leaders that their own experience in the last decade shows the way. Here\u2019s Josef Joffe: Why [should France emulate] the former German chancellor? Because he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,37],"tags":[26,27],"class_list":["post-3882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","category-37","tag-26","tag-27"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3883,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions\/3883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}