Department of Economics

Course: HISTORY GREEK OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT

Code: ΕCO463

Semester: B

Tutor: Manos Kountouris

This seminar course on the History of Greek Economic Thought attempts to help students to acquire a deeper understanding of Political Economy and its methodology by examining in concreto how economic ideas are produced, diffused and extended. The time frame of the course is from the creation of the Greek State in the nineteenth century until the last quarter of the twentieth century. The course examines mainly the contribution of Greek academic economists and occasionally the contribution of others, such as politicians, journalists and intellectuals, who influenced the formulation of economic theorizing in Greece.

The course attempts to explain how economic theory is formulated in a relatively small country of the periphery, such as Greece, whose academia is well aware of the theoretical developments in the centre but, in most
cases, have difficulty in adapting these developments to the Greek reality, let alone to formulate new theoretical schemes.

Course requirements include economic theory, history of economic thought and European and Greek economic History. Students are examined by producing an original short essay in a subjectof their choosing in the
history of Greek contemporary economic thought, thus preparing themselves for postgraduate research in political economy and economics.

Textbook
Manolis Kountouris, The development of economic thought in Greece: 1837-1942, Doctoral dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Athens, 1998  [inGreek]. Available online from the Greek Documentation Centre at thesis.ekt.gr/thesisBookReader/id/11033]

Michalis Psalidopoulos, Political economy and Greek intellectuals: Studies on the history of economic thought in contemporary Greece,Athens, Tipothito, 1999[in Greek].