Costas Lapavitsas: 7 books

Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If it has drifted rightward, the answer is to fight for reform from within. In this iconoclastic polemic, economist Costas Lapavitsas demolishes this...

A radical anti-capitalist alternative to Eurozone austerity On the 25th January 2015 the Greek people voted in an election of historic importance—not just for Greece but potentially all of Europe. The radical party Syriza was elected and austerity and the neoliberal agenda is being challenged....

First, there was the credit crunch, and governments around the world stepped in to bail out the banks. The sequel to that debacle is the sovereign debt crisis, which has hit the eurozone hard. The hour has come to pay the piper, and ordinary citizens across Europe are growing to realize that socialism...

Basándose en el análisis económico de dos de los principales pensadores de Europa, Heiner Flassbeck y Costas Lapavitsas (quien concurrió a las recientes elecciones en la lista de Syriza), Contra la troika es el primer libro que plantea desde la izquierda un plan estratégico de salida del euro para los países periféricos.

Nur Deutschland kann die Eurozone retten, weil nur über Lohnerhöhungen hier die Lücke in der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit geschlossen werden kann, ohne Europa noch tiefer in Depression und Deflation zu treiben. Begreift Deutschland nicht, dass es sich selbst ändern muss, ist das Schicksal des gemeinsamen...

Financialization is one of the most innovative concepts to emerge in the field of political economy during the last three decades, although there is no agreement on what exactly it is. Profiting Without Producing puts forth a distinctive view defining financialization in terms of the fundamental conduct...

Where does the power of money come from? Why is trust so important in financial operations? How does the swapping of gifts differ from the exchange of commodities? Where does self-interest stop and communal solidarity start in capitalist economies?These issues and many more are discussed in a rigorous, yet readable, manner in Social Foundations of