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Dimitrios Kyriakou
Kyriakou, Dimitrios
Kyriakou, DimitriosPermanent State Secretary General for Technology & Innovation, Government of Greece; Member, New Economic Theory Working Group, World Academy of Art & Science |
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Permanent State Secretary General for Technology & Innovation, Government of Greece; Member, New Economic Theory Working Group, World Academy of Art & Science
Dimitrios Kriyakou is the Permanent State Secretary General for Technology and Innovation in the Greek Government. He served as Economic Advisor to the Greek Prime Minister during 2011-2012; former Research Director, Salzburg Global and is a Member of the New Economic Theory Working Group of WAAS. He has published extensively on the technoeconomic field. He has also been the editor of technoeconomic refereed journal, the IPTS REPORT for 10 years. He has served as chief economist of the directorate for prospective studies (IPTS) of the Commission's Joint Research Centre. He has received several awards and honours.
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
Fighting the Debt Crisis’ Undertow: Greece and the Eurozone
( Economic Theory ), ( Money & Finance ), ( New Economics )
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Abstract
To measure the debt crisis in Europe in general, and in Greece in particular, there are different levels of analysis, rarely examined together: at the global, EU and the national levels. The global level involves the origins of the crisis in the infra-regulated practices of financial entities worldwide, whereas the EU level reflects architectural weaknesses of the European Monetary Union. The national level entails specific vulnerabilities of the national...
Domesticating Finance for Pursuing Post-Crisis Growth
( Economic Theory ), ( Money & Finance )
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There has been a total (public and private) debt bubble that has been growing since the 80s, accompanying an implicit promise of higher standards of living through large market deregulation experiments (capital markets deregulation and capital mobility being chief among them). The path chosen by conventional economics for delivering this implicit promise was debt accumulation. This debt-based road to growth raises the weight, power, risk-taking and...