Stavros Mavroudeas Blog

Comment in Press TV News (26-12-2018) on the recent stock market fall

https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201901051071233435-eurozone-fragmentation-euro-economy-issue/ Collapse of the European Integration ‘is on the Cards’ – Professor 06:06 05.01.2019 With 2019 beginning and the EU as fractured as ever, increasing scrutiny has been placed by leading economists on the bloc’s single currency the EU. Which they argue has caused more harm than good. Sputnik spoke with Stavros Mavroudeas, Professor of Political Economy at the University of Macedonia for...

Ακολουθούν οι σημειώσεις της συνέντευξη μου στο SPUTNIK για την επέτειο των εγκαινίων του ευρώ 4-1-2019. Η ηχογράφηση της συνέντευξης (στα αγγλικά) ακολουθεί παρακάτω. 20 χρόνια μετά τα εγκαίνια του, το ευρώ αποτελεί ιστορία επιτυχίας; Σίγουρα όχι. Το ευρώ αποτελεί μέρος του σχεδίου της ευρωπαϊκής ολοκλήρωσης. Αυτό είναι ένα ιμπεριαλιστικό εγχείρημα. Εγκαινιάστηκε μετά το 2ο Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο υπό την αιγίδα των ΗΠΑ με σκοπό να εξασφαλίσει οικονομικά και πολιτικά τη Δυτική Ευρώπη...

Interview in SPUTNIK 4-1-2019

S.Mavroudeas' Interview in SPUTNIK (7-12-2018) on the anniversary of A.Grigoropoulos' killing

This is another G20 summit in the current era of global turbulence The roots of this global turbulence lay in the shaking foundations of especially Western capitalism: a severe crisis in 2008, a weak recovery, low profitability, increased exploitation of workers and middle strata The shaking foundations of Western capitalism endanger the position of its dominant superpower, the US. The latter proceeds aggressively to buttress its dominance: unilateralism, international aggression,...

Συνέντευξη για την πολιτική και οικονομική κατάσταση της χώρας στον Prisma 91.6 FM της Πρέβεζας

OPEN LECTURE SERIES YEAR III – Academic year 2018/2019 Political Economy and Health “Developing a Dialogue Between Political Economy and Public Health” 22nd November 2018| 5.30 pm Michael Mason seminar room, Yvonne Carter Building (Whitechapel Campus) 58, Turner Street E1 2AB Stavros Mavroudeas: “Financialization Hypothesis: A Creative Contribution or a Theoretical Blind Alley?”

After a considerable period of calm there is currently a resurgence of popular mobilisations in Greece. The Greek people are suffering from a barbaric EU-IMF austerity program for 8 years. Initially there were massive popular reactions to austerity policies. Then they calmed down as SYRIZA’s election in government was supposed to ameliorate people’s living standards. This was disproved as SYRIZA continued the same austerity policies as its predecessors. The recent resurgence of popular...