The Great Achievement of Greek-Owned Shipping (1946-2017) and Keynes’ Animal Spirits
Modern Economy, 2017, 8, 1186-1210 http://www.scirp.org/journal/me ISSN Online: 2152-7261 ISSN Print: 2152-7245 The Great Achievement of Greek-Owned Shipping (1946-2017) and Keynes’ Animal Spirits Alexandros M. Goulielmos1,2 1Department of Maritime Studies, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece 2Shipping Division of Business College of Athens, Athens, Greece How to cite this paper: Goulielmos, A.M. Abstract (2017) The Great Achievement of Greek- Owned Shipping (1946-2017) and Keynes’ The Greek-owned Shipping’s great achievement since 1946, time when ~100 Animal Spirits. Modern Economy, 8, 1186- liberties acquired, is presented. It lies in the disproportion between a large 1210. https://doi.org/10.4236/me.2017.810082 global fleet and a small national seaborne trade. We also presented the 1300 years historical link between 21 Greek islands, and at least 31 great ship own- Received: September 14, 2017 ers; kinship ties created by living in the same island, and… by marriages Accepted: October 27, 2017 among fleet owners; the common participation in the ship capital of the ship Published: October 30, 2017 owner and of his crew (συμπλοιοκτησία = common ownership). The causes Copyright © 2017 by author and shown were 1) international and 2) national: 1) Greeks were cross-traders; the Scientific Research Publishing Inc. shipping policy of oil companies favored them; the seaborne trade expansion This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International too. 2) Greek-fatherland was occupied for 376 years (1453 - 1829) by Turks; License (CC BY 4.0). Greek merchants/ship owners had to work abroad (UK 1800s; NY 1939; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Canada 1939); Greeks became skilled in owning and building ships since the Open Access time of Themistocles (524 - 459 BC), who saved Europe from Persians.
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