Costas Lapavitsas is Professor of Economics at SOAS University of London and has taught at SOAS since 1990.
His main area of specialisation is monetary theory and the political economy of money and finance. For several years his research focused on the financialisation of capitalism, its characteristic trends, variable forms and manifold implications for contemporary society. He has also worked on the attendant crises of financialisation, including the Eurozone crisis, producing work that has had a considerable impact on the theoretical and policy debates.
Professor Lapavitsas has taught at several universities across the world, including the University of Tokyo, the New School for Social Research, METU in Ankara, the University of Buenos Aires, and elsewhere. He writes frequently for the international and the Greek press. In 2015 he was elected as a Member of Parliament in Greece.
Crisis en la Zona Euro: Perspectiva de un impago en la periferia y la salida de la moneda única común
Lapavitsas, Costas, Kaltenbrunner, Annina, Labrinidis, G., Lindo, Duncan, Meadway, J., Michell, Jo, Painceira, Juan Pablo, Pires, E., Powell, Jeff, Stenfors, Alexis and Teles, Nuno, 2011, Revista de economía crítica (Internet) (11), pp 131-171
Lapavitsas, Costas, Kaltenbrunner, Annina, Lindo, Duncan, Michell, Jo, Painceira, Juan Pablo, Pires, E., Powell, Jeff, Stenfors, Alexis and Teles, Nuno, 2010, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies (12), 4, pp 321-373
Lapavitsas, Costas (2017). In: Brennan, David M., (eds.), Kristjanson-Gural, David, (eds.) and Mulder, Catherine P., (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Marxian Economics. Abingdon; New York: Routledge
Confronting the Failure of the European Monetary Union
Lapavitsas, Costas (2015). In: Jäger, Johannes, (eds.) and Springler, Elisabeth, (eds.), Asymmetric Crisis in Europe and Possible Futures : Critical Political Economy and Post-Keynesian Perspectives. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp 131-147
The Eurozone Crisis through the Prism of World Money
Lapavitsas, Costas (2013). In: Wolfson, M., (eds.) and Epstein, J., (eds.), The Handbook of the Political Economy of Financial Crises. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, pp 378-394
Financialisation and capitalist accumulation: A structural account of the crisis of 2007-9
Lapavitsas, Costas (2013). In: Yagi, K., (eds.), Yokokawa, Nobuharu, (eds.), Hagiwara, S., (eds.) and Dymski, Gary, (eds.), Crises of Global Economies and the Future of Capitalism. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp 55-74
Financial System Design and the Post-Washington Consensus
Lapavitsas, Costas and Aybar, S. (2001). In: Lapavitsas, Costas, (eds.), Fine, Ben, (eds.) and Pincus, Jonathan, (eds.), Development Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond the Post-Washington Consensus. London: Routledge, pp 28-51
