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Copelovitch: Greece votes no. Is this the end for the Eurozone?

So Greece has voted “no” in its referendum: 61.3 percent of voters have rejected the (now withdrawn) bailout proposals put forth last week by the troika creditors–the European Commission (EC), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the European Central Bank (ECB). Those proposals would have imposed further austerity on a country that has already experienced a crisis worse than the Great Depression.