What the World Can Learn from the Greek Debt Crisis

On Aug. 21, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced the end of his country's bailout era from the island of Ithaca, a reference to the successful end of the Odyssey and its hero's arrival home. Given Greece's ongoing economic challenges, the more apt mythological analogy would have been Sisyphus rolling an immense boulder up a hill—only for it to roll down when it nears the top.