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The paper titled ‘COVID-19 Pandemic and Vaccine Imperialism’ (authored by Stergios A. Seretis https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9115-2522, Stavros D. Mavroudeas https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2230-7479 [email protected], […], and Elias Kondilis https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9592-2830+2View all authors and affiliations) has been published in the Review of Radical Political Economics. Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic revealed and exacerbated the global inequalities regarding the...

Abstract The financialization hypothesis (FH) is a popular leitmotiv which argues that the financial system conquers the commanding heights of the capitalist economy. It maintains that finance gained independence from productive-capital and began to dominate it. The FH bases this argument on several empirical claims concerning the size and the strategic role of financial entities. This article offers a critique of crucial analytical and empirical claims of the FH. It argues that the...

The V Moscow Academic Economic Forum (2023 MAEF) was held on 7-8 June 2023, organised by the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), the Russian Free Economic Society (VEO of Russia) and the International Union of Economists (IUE) Part of the Forum was the VII International Political Economy Congress (IPEC-2023), that took place at the Faculty of Economics of Lomonosov Moscow State University S.Mavroudeas (Panteion University, Dept. of Social Policy) was invited speaker in the Forum....

The DIMITRA plan and the financial and political alchemies of G. Varoufakis S.Mavroudeas * & Th. Chatzirafailidis ** *Professor of Political Economy, Department of Social Policy, Panteion University ** PhD candidate , Department of Economics, UoA 1. Verbal ‘saviors’ in times of crisis It is common, in times of crisis, the appearance of ‘saviors’ promising to suffering popular masses salvation through imaginative plans that will reform the system and improve...

Economic Policy covers the aims and the instruments of state economic interventionism. As a broad problematique it existed from the very birth of the science of the economy. However, as a special subject-area it was inaugurated in the interwar era and formalized by the beginning of the post-World War II era. Since then, Economic Policy faced serious ups and lows within economic analysis and policymaking. Particularly within Mainstream Economics (the nowadays dominant tradition within...

Selected and revised papers from the proceedings of the ICOPEC 2021 Conference have been published by IJOPEC Publications in a ccollecctive volume titled ‘The Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on societies and economies’. I was an invited speaker at the conference and I contributed a paper titled ‘The Political Economy of the COVID-19 Pandemic’, which is included in this collective volume. The links to my paper are the following:...

Following below is the video recording of the PANEL 8. ‘Capitalist Accumulation and the Financialisation Hypothesis: a Critical Review‘, that took place during the 15th WAPE Forum. The chair and discussant of the panel was Lefteris Tsoulfidis (Professor of History of Economic Thought, Department of Economics, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece). The panelists were: Stavros Mavroudeas (Vice Chair of the World Association for Political Economy, Professor of...

[embedded content]My initial comments at the seminar on the legacy of Pierangelo Garegnani's contributions to economics organized by the Italian Post Keynesian Network. The full seminar here.

Patrick Bond (Professor of Political Economy, University of the Western Cape, School of Government) has made a very illuminating video-presentation on the subject ‘Financialisation theories’. Part of the video-presentation is based on Mavroudeas S. & Papadatos F. (2018), ‘Is the Financialisation Hypothesis a theoretical blind alley?’, World Review of Political Economy vol.9 no.4. Our paper can be downloaded at...

In the recent issue of INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL THOUGHT it is included an article authored by me and titled ‘The economic and political consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic’. It can be assesed, downloaded (and even listened to through the LISTEN button) via the following link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21598282.2020.1866235 Research Article The Economic and Political Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Stavros Mavroudeas Received 11 Jun 2020, Accepted...