The impact of fiscal austerity on suicide: On the empirics of a modern Greek tragedy

Suicide Rates in Greece: Comparing Mortality Data with Police Reporting Statistics and Investigating Recent Trends

“…Most of those reports are based on scientific research findings. From the very early and sometimes poorly justified papers Madianos et al 2011;Chang et al 2013) to the more recent works (Rachiotis et al 2015;Branas et al 2015;Antonakakis and Collins 2014;Madianos et al 2014;Gatopoulos 2013), suicides -in absolute numbers as well as in rates -have skyrocketed in response to increasing joblessness, serious income setbacks, health deterioration and depression. Yet this relationship is rather speculative, since neither the nature of the data nor the methods applied allow for establishing causality.…”

67 Impact of economic austerity and prosperity events on suicide in greece: a 30-year interrupted time-series analysis

“…Another, more recent study concluded that fiscal austerity, as measured by yearly trends in public expenditure reductions, as well as general trends in unemployment rates and negative economic growth, led to significant increases in overall suicide rates in Greece. 11 Monthly interrupted time-series analyses have also been recently completed in other Southern European countries, such as Spain, where an 8% increase in suicide was shown to follow the start of the financial crisis there in 2008. 43 Figure 2 Estimated forms (abrupt sustained, abrupt temporary) and magnitudes (%) of statistically significant monthly interruptions in four Greek suicide time series.…”

“…Man-woman differences have been demonstrated in prior studies of broad economic trends and suicide in Greece. 11 Suicide counts were obtained from death certificates of Greek residents who died in Greece over the study period.…”

“…31 32 Recent, related works of longer term processes-through-time have involved yearly observations, been less than 50 total observations in time, and have been analysed using standard regression models. 11 Since our data set was a monthly time series consisting of n=360 monthly observations and our aim was to test the impact of events that were abrupt interruptions-in-time, we appropriately chose ARIMA models for our analyses.…”

From the exclusion of the people in neoliberalism to publicity without a public

“…As a mirror of immediate, unconditional self-interest (Queiroz, 2016), TINA precludes the possibility of individual liberty under a system of collective deliberation, i.e., a system of ultimate intentional lawmakers (the peoples' sovereign (Locke, 1679(Locke, [1960) or the universal sovereign (Kant, 1797)). For example, neoliberal policies (e.g., fiscal consolidation, cuts to social security, the privatization of public property, the liberalization of collective bargaining, and the shrinking of pensions (Barro 2009;Cochrane 2009)) have caused harmful effects, including poverty and inequality (Ball et al, 2013;Edmiston, 2014;Greer 2014;Stiglitz, 2013), higher rates of suicide (Antonakakis and Collins 2014), state bankruptcy (Teubal, 2004), and state authoritarianism (Brown, 2006(Brown, , 2015Bruff, 2014;Kreuder-Sonnen and Zangl, 2015;Orphanides, 2014;Schmidt and Thatcher, 2014). If individuals are tempted to appeal to intentional political policies when facing these effects, TINA commands that, instead of looking for public solutions issuing from intentional public deliberation, they should only obey the rules of the spontaneous order.…”