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The World This Week: Greece is accused of playing games as its economic life crashes to a halt

Greece is accused of playing games as its economic life crashes to a halt

04/07/2015

BBC World Service - The World This Week, Greece is accused of playing games as its economic life crashes to a halt

Has the game run its course for the Greek government as lenders pull the plug?

Greece missed a big payment deadline this week.  Now its international lenders say they won't even discuss a bail-out deal until after the referendum which the government called. How big a role has game theory played in the way Greece and its creditors have been behaving?  Also in this podcast: Tunisia announced heightened security after the tourist killings in Sousse -- but are things actually any better?  Longing in Russia for the Baltic republics. The Chinese bank that's taking on the world.  And the man who's giving away $32bn.
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