The current deep economic crisis is not, of course, the first or the last of the market economy system that has been established for about two centuries.

However, it is the first globalized crisis, in the sense that its global character is not, as in the interwar period, simply a reflection of the crisis in some major capitalist economies, but it is an organic and integral part of its own genesis and evolution.

The second important particular characteristic is that it is not only an economic crisis but part of an even more serious multidimensional crisis: ecological, political, cultural, and, in general, social.

This book examines these two issues in relation to the worsening Greek multidimensional crisis.