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Bank failures: The specter of crisis once again looms over capitalist economies S. Mavroudeas Department of Social Policy Panteion University THE BANKRUPCIES On 10/3, California-based Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) became the largest bank to fail since the financial crisis of 2008. It was the 16th largest US commercial bank. It specialized in transactions with technology and healthcare companies and particularly in investments in start-up companies. SVB’s bankruptcy was...

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...

Le site francais Alternative Révolutionnaire Communiste (tendance de NPA) a traduit et publié en français l’interview suivante de l’économiste marxiste grec Stavros Mavroudeas sur la pandémie de COVID-19 et ses conséquences sur l’économie et le travail.https://alt-rev-com.fr/2021/09/01/la-pandemie-et-ses-consequences-sur-leconomie-et-le-travail-entretien-avec-stavros-mavroudeas/ La pandémie et ses conséquences sur l’économie et le travail – entretien avec Stavros Mavroudeas. Colin...

The italian website Bollettino Culturale hosted the following interview with Stavros Mavroudeas on the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences on the economy and labour https://bollettinoculturale.blogspot.com/2021/07/intervista-stavros-mavroudeas-sulla.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR3zji71ezVNRABTmQbI4k-Uf7MYewhy26pdjmXISxlH2FdhMygmRswj_qs 1. How do you judge the management of the pandemic in the European Union? I have argued elsewhere...

Presentation at the 3rd Marx World Congress organised by the School of Marxism, Peking University, Beijing 17-18 July 2021 ABSTRACT I.I.Rubin’s Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value played a crucial role in the 1970s Value Debate between Marxist and neo-Ricardians as it gave inspiration and support to the Marxist argument about the social dimension of the political-economic analysis and also about the difference between Marx’s and Ricardo’s LTV. However, the subsequent self-proclaimed...

The Revista Nueva Realidad organised on 12-6-2021 a webinar. It theme was ‘Basics of Marxist Economics: Marx’s Law of Value’. Michael Roberts (economist), Abelardo Marina Flores (prof. of Economics, Autonomous Metropolitan University) and Stavros Mavroudeas (prof. of Political Economy, Panteion University) gave the seminar. My presentation follows below: [embedded content] View this document on Scribd The video recording of the webinar can be assesed via the...

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...

Back in 2011 Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-Filho (with the collaboration of Marco Boffo) have edited a Companion to Marxist Economics published by Edward Elgar. I have contributed two chapters in this companion: Mavroudeas S. (2011), ‘The Regulation Approach’ in Fine B. & Saad-Filho A. (eds.) Companion to Marxist Economics, Edward Elgar – translated also to Portuguese as ‘A ABORDAGEM DA REGULAÇÃO’ in Fine B. & Saad-Filho A. (eds.) 2020 DICIONÁRIO DE ECONOMIA POLÍTICA MARXISTA,...

Yesterday (11-9-2020) I was asked by PRESS TV to comment on the current tensions between Greece and Turkey. I expressed the opinion that these tensions and war-mongering threats are coming from both sides, that is the Greek and the Turkish ruling elites. And that the peoples of Greece and Turkey have nothing to gain from this. The two ruling elites scramble for supposed oil reserves in the Eastern Mediterranean basin. The existence of these reserves is far from certain; and also, if...