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Costas Lapavitsas (see, Costas Lapavitsas et al., ‘Euro-zone crisis: beggar thyself and thy neighbour’,Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, v.12, n.4, December 2010), a Professor of Economics at SOAS, University of London, and now elected member of the Greek parliament with left-wing party, Syriza, talks to Sebastian Budgen about Marxism and Keynesianism; the Euro-zone crisis; Greece’s predicaments; and ways out of the economic and political crisis that hit Greece and the continent. We are thankful to Sebastian Budgen and theJacobinmagazine for allowing reproduction of the interview inJBNES. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents information on the Royal Society of Arts event on "How to Change the Post-Crash Economy." The panelists at the event included Ben Chew, Economics Editor of The Independent; economics professor Costas Lapavitsas; and Paul Mason, Culture and Digital Editor of Channel 4 News. They discussed financialisation of contemporary mature capitalism, and increasing involvement of households in the activities of the financial system.

The article presents the speeches of college faculty members Costas Lapavitsas, Kevin Featherstone, Peter Bratsis, Stathis Kouvelakis, and Etienne Balibar given during a debate at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London in England on May 5, 2010 in which the contributing factors to Greece's economic crises such as corruption and clientelism are mentioned as well as the solidarity of national economies in the Eurozone.

Costas Lapavitsas considers the political economy of bloated finance and makes a case for establishing democratically-run public banks, which, he asserts, could strengthen the social and the collective in modern economies [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]