Costas Lapavitsas
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Costas Lapavitsas ( Greek Κωνσταντίνος Λαπαβίτσας , born January 20, 1961 in Thessaloniki ) is a Greek economist.
Life
Costas Lapavitsas studied at the London School of Economics and received a Masters there in 1982. In 1986 he received his PhD from Birkbeck College . Since 1999 he has worked as a lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and was appointed professor there in 2008.
In 2007 he founded the Research on Money and Finance (RMF) group, a network of economists who deal with monetary and financial policy in contemporary capitalism. Lapavitsas since 2008 regular columnist in The Guardian .
In the general election in January 2015 , Lapavitsas was elected to the Greek parliament as a member of the Imathia constituency for the SYRIZA party . In 2015, during the Greek sovereign debt crisis , he asked the Tsipras government to exit the euro.
Fonts
- The Left Case Against the EU . Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018 ISBN 9781509531066
- with Heiner Flassbeck : Only Germany can save the euro. The last act begins. Westend, Frankfurt am Main 2015
- Lexē pros lexē: keimena gia tēn ellēnikē krisē, 2010-2013 . Athens: Topos, 2014 ISBN 978-9-60499-096-2 (he)
- Profiting Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All. Verso, London / New York 2013.
- Financialization in crisis. Brill, Leiden / Boston 2012.
- with Eustache Kouvélakis (Ed.): Crisis in the Eurozone. Verso, London / New York 2012.
- Systemic Failure of Private Banking. A case for public banks. In: Philip Arestis , Malcolm Sawyer (Eds.): 21st century Keynesian economics. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2010, pp. 162-201.
- Social foundations of markets, money, and credit. Routledge, London / New York 2003
- with Makoto Itoh : Political Economy of Money and Finance. Macmillan, London 1998.
Web links
- Literature by and about Costas Lapavitsas in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Costas Lapavitsas in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Costas Lapavitsas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kώστας Λαπαβίτσας , website Costas Lapavitsas (gr)
- Costas Lapavitsas , at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
- Κωνσταντίνος Λαπαβίτσας, Greek Parliament (Greek)
Individual evidence
- ^ Research on Money and Finance , website
- ^ Costas Lapavitsas , Directory of Articles in The Guardian since 2008.
- ↑ Costas Lapavitsas, Greek Parliament (English)
- ↑ Costas Lapavitsas: To beat austerity, Greece must break free from the euro , in: The Guardian, March 2, 2015
- ↑ Elisa Simantke : Greece must free itself from the euro , in: Der Tagesspiegel, March 5, 2015, p. 8
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lapavitsas, Costas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lapavitsas, Konstantinos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thessaloniki |