Reducing the Hellenic Financial Crisis to Its Root Cause: A Cybernetic Analysis. (17th September 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Trujillo, Joaquin
• Is Part Of: Anthropology of consciousness. Volume 29:Number 2(2018)
• Page Start: 196
• Page End: 222
• Publication Date: 2018-09-17
• Subjects: Greece -- financial crisis -- cybernetics -- systems analysis -- sociology -- phenomenology; Consciousness -- Periodicals; Anthropology -- Periodicals; 128
• DOI: 10.1111/anoc.12099
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1053-4202

Abstract

Abstract: This article cybernetically (isomorphically) investigates the causes of the Hellenic financial crisis. It (1) describes the crisis and its commonly assessed root cause: systemic corruption coupled to the decisions of ample numbers of Greeks to endure the problem rather than resolve it; (2) reviews SYRIZA's 2015 anti‐austerity campaign and identifies incompatibilities within its apparent collective purposes that imply processes more fundamental than corruption and bad faith may be causing the crisis; (3) situates cybernetics within a sociological framework to analyze those processes appropriately; (4) propositionally reduces them to a general rule—the tragedy of the commons—operating more or less within the collective conscience of the Greek people; and (5) and exposes the parameter's self‐similar manifestation in social actions that have contributed to the crisis.