Economic Blues:
The Left in Government Times
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Speaker
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Euclid Tsakalotos
Greek Minister of Finance
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Chair
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Professor Kevin Featherstone
Hellenic Observatory Director, LSE
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Venue
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Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE
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Date
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Tuesday, 10 November 2015
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Time
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20.00-21.30
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Poster
Abstract
What are the prospects of the Left in government after the summer agreement? Can that agreement be incorporated into a political strategy that furthers social justice and a different economic model? Can Greece act as catalyst for wider progressive changes in the Eurozone and the EU?
Biography
Euclid Tsakalotos studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Universities of Oxford and Sussex, and completed his PhD in 1989 at the University of Oxford. He has also taught at the Universities of Kent and Athens University of Economics and Business until September 2010. Since 2010, he is Professor of Economics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
He is a member of the Central Committee of SYRIZA and has been a member of the Executive Committee of POSDEP (Hellenic Federation of University Teachers’ Associations). Mr Tsakalotos has also been a member of the parliament’s Permanent Committee of Economic Affairs. In May 2012 he was elected a SYRIZA MP in Athens and he was re-elected in 2015.
He became the Minister of Finance in the Second Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras since 23 September 2015. He previously served as the Minister of Finance in the First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras from 6 July 2015, following Yanis Varoufakis's resignation, to the 28 August 2015, when a caretaker cabinet was appointed before the September 2015 general election. He also served as the Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs from January 2015 until July 2015.
He has written six books and contributed articles to numerous scientific magazines on macroeconomics, European Union economics, political economy and philosophy of social sciences.
PHOTOS
Photography supplied courtesy of Antonios Fiala A.Fiala@lse.ac.uk