{"id":184646,"date":"2012-02-24T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/24\/dungeons-and-draghi\/"},"modified":"2012-02-24T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T02:09:00","slug":"dungeons-and-draghi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/24\/dungeons-and-draghi\/","title":{"rendered":"Dungeons and Draghi*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone has finally <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2012\/02\/16\/so-what-would-your-plan-for-greece-be\/\">set up the Greek\/Euro financial crisis as a choose your own adventure game<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Reading the media and blogs, it seems to me that left and right are united in the view that the Greek default is being handled appallingly, that the current attempts at a solution are childishly obviously wrong and that everything is the fault of someone, probably the Germans. My own view \u2013 that it is not at all clear what the direction of policy is, and that although I don\u2019t agree with the troika plan, it\u2019s recognizable as a good-faith plan made by conscientious international civil servants working under unimaginably difficult political constraints in an economic context that was irreparably broken before they got there \u2013 is, as always, unpopular.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t have a solution myself \u2013 the more I end up discussing this with people, the more I am reminded of the London Business School proverb taught on some of the gnarlier case studies, which is \u201cNot All Business Problems Have Solutions\u201d. So, CT hivemind, what do you think the best outcome is? Below the fold, I note some talking points, aimed at preventing our commentariat from falling into some of the pitfalls and mistakes which appear to be dominating debate at present. Because the whole issue is a twisty turny maze which at times seems to consist of nothing but false moves, I am presenting it in the form of a \u201cChoose Your Own Adventure\u201d book. I would note at this stage that I could probably have presented it in a funky HTML way rather than making you scroll up and down, but I have convinced myself that this is a feature rather than a bug \u2013 the medium matches the message here, because international debt negotiations are cumbersome, inconvenient and irritating too. Also, it is probably easier than it needs to be for readers to end up at the wrong paragraph and get a confusing jumbled narrative which bears little resemblance to the decisions they thought they\u2019d made. Again, this is a crucial part of giving you the authentic international financial diplomacy experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s an inspired idea.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Not my bon mot.  One of the commenters on&nbsp; the above post came up with it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone has finally set up the Greek\/Euro financial crisis as a choose your own adventure game: Reading the media and blogs, it seems to me that left and right are united in the view that the Greek default is being handled appallingly, that the current attempts at a solution are childishly obviously wrong and that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,984,1087,1002,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-europe","category-gaming","category-good-writing","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}