Professor Costas Lapavitsas
BSc (Econ), MSc (Econ), PhD (London)
Overview
Faculty of Law and Social Sciences (L&SS)
(Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Law and Social Sciences)
Department of Economics
(Professor in Economics)
Japan Research Centre (JRC)
(Member, Japan Research Centre)
Theory of banking and finance; history of economic thought; the Japanese financial system. Teaching interests include banking and finance, the Japanese economy, history of economic thought.Contact Details
- Name:
- Professor Costas Lapavitsas
- Email address:
- cl5@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4538
- Address:
- School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 269
- Office Hours:
- Mondays 2pm - 3pm
- Personal Website:
- http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/economics/staff/CostasLapavitsas/CostasLapavitsas.html
Teaching
Students supervised
Courses Taught
Research
My research interests include the relationship of finance and development, the structure of financial systems, and the evolution and functioning of the Japanese financial system. I have recently started work on the interaction between market and non-market relations in the financial system.Current Publications.
Expertise
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Available for
Regional Expertise
- East Asia
Country Expertise
- Japan
Languages
Publications
Authored Books
Lapavitsas, Costas (2003) Social Foundations of Markets, Money and Credit. London: Routledge.
Lapavitsas, Costas (1999) Political Economy of Money and Finance. Macmillan (London-Basingstoke).
Edited Books
Fine, Ben and Lapavitsas, Costas and Pincus , Jonathan, eds. (2001) Development policy in the 21st century: beyond the post-Washington consensus. London: Routledge.
Chapters in Books
Lapavitsas, Costas (2003) 'Money as Money and Money as Capital in a Capitalist Economy.' In: Saad-Filho, A, (ed.), Anti-Capitalism: A Marxist Guide. Pluto Press (UK), pp. 59-72.
Lapavitsas, Costas (2001) 'Neither the Washington nor the Post-Washington Consensus: Development at the Crossroads.' In: Lapavitstas, C. and Fine, B. and Pincus, J., (eds.), Development policy in the 21st century: beyond the post-Washington consensus. London: Routledge.
Lapavitsas, Costas and Aybar, S. (2001) 'Financial System Design and the Post-Washington Consensus.' In: Lapavitstas, C. and Fine, B. and Pincus, J., (eds.), Neither the Washington nor the Post-Washington Consensus: Development at the Crossroads. London: Routledge, pp. 28-51.
Lapavitsas, Costas (2001) 'The Political Economy of the Central Banks:Agents of Stability or Source of Instability?' In: Arestis, P and Sawyer, M, (eds.), Money, Finance and Capitalist Development. Edward Elgar (London), pp. 179-219.
Articles
Lapavitsas, Costas (2009) 'The Roots of the Global Financial Crisis.' Development Viewpoint (28).
Lapavitsas, Costas and Santos, Paulo dos (2008) 'Globalization and Contemporary Banking: On the Impact of New Technology.' Contributions to Political Economy, 27 . pp. 31-56.
Lapavitsas, Costas (2007) 'Information and Trust as Social Aspects of Credit.' Economy and Society, 36 (3). pp. 416-436.
Lapavitsas, Costas (2005) 'The Emergence of Money in Commodity Exchange, or Money as Monopolist of the Ability to Buy.' Review of Political Economy, 17 (4). pp. 549-569.
Lapavitsas, Costas (2004) 'Commodities and Gifts: Why Commodities Represent More than Market Relations.' Science & Society, 68 (1). pp. 33-56.
Fine, Ben and Saad Filho, Alfredo and Lapavitsas, Costas (2004) 'Transforming the Transformation Problem: Why the New Interpretation is a Wrong Turning.' Review of Radical Political Economics, 36 (1). pp. 3-19.
Lapavitsas, Costas (2002) 'Globalisation and the Imperative of Economic Control.' Greek, Theseis, vol. no. 79, April-June . pp. 23-42.
Lapavitsas, Costas (2002) 'Review of "Markets from Networks: Socioeconomic Models of Production" by Harrison C. White.' Enterprise & Society, vol. 3(3) . pp. 547-549.
Lapavitsas, Costas (2002) 'What Kind of Theoretical Journal is Necessary for the Left Today?' Greek, Theseis, vol. no. 80, July-September . pp. 17-20.
Lapavitsas, Costas (2001) 'The Recent Turkish Crisis: Another Step Toward Free Market Authoritarianism.' Historical Materialism, vol. 8 . pp. 297-308.
Lapavitsas, Costas (2001) 'The Recent Turkish Crisis: Another Step Toward Free Market Authoritarianism.' Theseis, vol. 77 . pp. 99-115.
Lapavitsas, Costas (2001) 'The Recent Turkish Crisis: Another Step Toward Free Market Authoritarianism.' Iktisat, vol. 416 . pp. 52-58.
Fine, Ben and Lapavitsas, Costas (2000) 'Markets and Money in Social Theory: What Role for Economics?' Economy and Society, 29 (3). pp. 357-382.
Lapavitsas, Costas (2000) 'On Marx's Analysis of Money Hoarding in the Turnover of Capital.' Review of Political Economy, 12 (4). pp. 219-235.
Lapavitsas, Costas and Saad-Filho, A (2000) 'The Supply of Credit Money and Capital Accumulation: A Critical View of Post-Keynesianism.' Research in Political Economy, vol. 18 . pp. 309-333.
Lapavitsas, Costas (2000) 'Money and the Analysis of Capitalism: The Significance of Commodity Money.' Review of Radical Political Economies, 32 (No 4) . pp. 631-656.
Lapavitsas, Costas (1997) 'The Political Economy of the Central Banks:Agents of Stability or Source of Instability?' International Papers in Political Economy, 4 (No 3) . pp. 1-52.
Lapavitsas, Costas (1997) 'Two Approaches to the Concept of Interest-Bearing Capital.' International Journal of Political Economy, 27 No. 1 . pp. 85-106.
Lapavitsas, Costas (1996) 'The Classical Adjustment Mechanism of International Balances: Marx''s Critique.' Contibutions to Political Economy (Annual Supplement to the Cambridge Journal of Economics), No. 15 . pp. 63-79.
Monographs
Lapavitsas, Costas (2004) Social origins of Ottoman industrialisation: Evidence from the Macedonian town of Naoussa. Working Paper. London, UK: School of Oriental and African Studies.
Lapavitsas, Costas (2003) Money as a 'Universal equivalent' and its origin in commodity exchange. Working Paper. London, UK: School of Oriental and African Studies.
Lapavitsas, Costas (2002) Banks and the Design of the Financial System: Underpinnings in Steuart, Smith and Hilferding. Working Paper. London, UK: School of Oriental and African Studies.
