{"id":655,"date":"2011-04-19T07:35:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T05:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=655"},"modified":"2011-05-12T23:11:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T21:11:29","slug":"the-politics-of-moral-hazard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/the-politics-of-moral-hazard\/","title":{"rendered":"The politics of moral hazard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0essence the True Finns, real winners of Finland\u2019s general election on Sunday, are perhaps best seen as a political expression of that economic mantra of the moment, \u201cmoral hazard\u201d. A right-wing populist movement, the party has successfully tapped disquiet over the country\u2019s stalling economy and the idea that the profligate EU, overfunded by Finns, is bailing out the undeserving and delinquent.<\/p>\n<p>A reward, or so the argument goes, for Greek\/Irish\/Portuguese irresponsibility that will simply encourage more of the same. And anyway, it\u2019s not our problem, party leader Timo Soini successfully argued.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: <\/strong>The Irish Times<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/opinion\/2011\/0419\/1224294978871.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0essence the True Finns, real winners of Finland\u2019s general election on Sunday, are perhaps best seen as a political expression of that economic mantra of the moment, \u201cmoral hazard\u201d. A right-wing populist movement, the party has successfully tapped disquiet over the country\u2019s stalling economy and the idea that the profligate EU, overfunded by Finns, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-37","tag-28"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}