The subject of the book is the economic transformation of Greece from the Balkan Wars to the present day, that is, the transformation of a poor agricultural country into a developed economy of the Western world.

It is a long journey, with its explosions and setbacks, a journey that is tightly dependent on the international environment, which Greece often leverages, but in other cases is unable to keep up with, a situation that has led our country in recent years into a real trap, into a genuine deadlock.

The book is not only aimed at historians and economists but is an attempt to speak about a difficult and often agonizing path of the country, in which both political and social factors weigh equally in shaping the Greek economic reality.

Furthermore, the logic respected by the narrative does not take into account cycles or inevitabilities, but is the product of the effort, sometimes successful and sometimes not, of the people who live and work in this country, who thereby produce its wealth.