Σύντομο Βιογραφικό / Short CV


1. Personal information

Name:         Costas Lapavitsas.
Pace of birth: Thessaloniki, Greece.

2. Education

BSc (Econ): 1978-1981, London School of Economics. 
MSc: 1981-1982, London School of Economics.  
PhD:                 1982-86, Birkbeck College, University of London. 

3. Career record

2015 Member of the Greek Parliament for the Prefecture of Imathia.
2008 - Professor of Economics, SOAS, University of London.
2004-2008 Reader in Economics, SOAS, University of London. 
1999-2004         Senior Lecturer in Economics, SOAS, University of London.
1993-94                 Associate Professor of Economics, University of Tokyo, one year contract.     
1991-99         Lecturer in Economics, SOAS, University of London.


Visiting or fixed term university appointments

2022     Visiting Professor of Economics, New School for Social Research
2006     Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Tokyo  
1999-2000 Visiting Professor of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business.

4. Selected Recent Publications

a) Books

Monographs

2023a, The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony, with the EReNSEP Writing Collective, London: Verso.
2023b, The Cost-of-Living Crisis and How to Get Out of It, with J. Meadway and D. Nicholls, London: Verso. 
2019, Capitalism in the Ottoman Balkans: Industrialisation and Modernity in Macedonia, with P. Cakiroglu, London: IB Tauris. 
2018, The Left Case against the EU, Cambridge, UK and Medford, Ma: Polity Press. T 
2015, Against the Troika: Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone, with H. Flassbeck, Verso: London and New York.
2013, Profiting without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All, Verso: London and New York.

Edited volumes 

2022a, Debating Modern Monetary Theory, co-edited with R. Rowthorn, London: Routledge.
2022b, Money, Finance, and Capitalist Crisis, co-edited with N. Yokokawa, London: Routledge.
2016, Marxist Monetary Theory: Collected Papers of Costas Lapavitsas, (ed), Leiden: Brill.



b) Articles in refereed journals

2023a, “The Limits of Currency Politics”, European Law Open.
2023b, “Persistent institutional malfunctioning in the Eurozone”, with M. Giordano, The Japanese Political Economy, 49(4), pp. 324-345.
2022a, “Financialisation in developing countries: Approaches, concepts, and metrics”, with A. Soydan,International Review of Applied Economics, 36(3), pp. 424-447.
2022b, “The return of inflation and the weakness of the sideof production”, The Japanese Political Economy, vol. 48 (2-4), pp. 149-169.
2021, “National states, transnational institutions, and hegemony in the EU”, with S. Cutillas, Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review, 19(1), pp. 429–448.
2020a,     “"Modern monetary theory on money, sovereignty, and policy: A marxist critique with reference to the Eurozone and Greece", with N. Aguila, The Japanese Political Economy, vol. 46(4), pp. 300-326.
2019a,         “The Historic Rise of Financial Profits in the USA”, Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, with I.Mendieta-Muñoz, 42: 3, pp. 443-468.
2019b,         “Political Economy of the Greek Crisis”, Review of Radical Political Economics, 51: 1, pp. 31–51.
2019c,         “Profitability trends in the era of financialization: Notes on the US economy”, with I. Mendieta- Muñoz, The Japanese Political Economy, 45:1-2,  pp. 4-19,