Greece in the Modern World System – A MiniCourse with Michalis Psalidopoulos (03/21/16 – 04/01/16)
In this six-session mini-course, Greece in the Modern World System: From Independence to Eurozone Membership, sponsored by the Onassis Foundation, Prof. Michalis Psalidopoulos, Greece’s representative at the IMF, outlines an approach to Greece’s current position in the Eurozone and the current economic crisis through analysis of Greece’s economic history since independence and of the institutions and structures controlling or influencing current relations between Greece and the Eurozone.
Michalis Psalidopoulos is Professor of Economics at the University of Athens, Greece. He earned his first degree in Economics from the University of Athens and pursued postgraduate studies in politics, sociology, and economics at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. He was a Fulbright Fellow at Duke University in 1993, a Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at Princeton University in 1996, and a Visiting Research Professor at King’s College, London in 1998.
Psalidopoulos’s research focuses on national traditions in the History of Economics and the relation between economic thought, economic policy, and good governance, especially in Southeastern Europe. Psalidopoulos has written extensively in his academic field of expertise. His books include The Crisis of 1929 and the Greek Economists, Keynesian Theory and Greek Economic Policy, Economic Theories and Social Policy and Xenophon Zolotas and the Greek Economy (in Greek). He edited The Canon in the History of Economics and Economic Thought and Policy in Europe’s Less Developed Countries, and was awarded the prize for the best economic treatise by the Academy of Athens in 2007 for International Conflict and Economic Thought (in Greek). His most recent book is Economists and Economic Policy in Modern Greece (in Greek, 2010). He is currently involved in a comparative project of economic experiences and policies in Europe’s less industrialized countries during the Great Depression. He speaks English, German, and French fluently, as well as Greek.
The 1-credit course meets from 3 to 6 PM on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays between March 21 and April 1. For more information, please contact the classics department, conveners of the course.