GEORGE LIAGOURAS CURRICULUM VITAE Personal Information Professional Address: 41, Kountouriotou Street 82100, Chios, Greece Telephones: +30-22710-35451 (work) +30-6947-601754 (mobile) E-mail: g.liagouras@fme.aegean.gr I. ACADEMIC PROFILE Education 1995: PhD in Economics, University Paris VII, Denis Diderot (Cum Laude: Très honorable avec félicitations du jury à l unanimité) Thesis title: Labour as Knowledge and Communication: Towards a Synthesis between the Regulation School and the Theory of Communicative Action 1988: MSc in Economic Theory, University Paris X (Nanterre) 1987: BSc in Economics, University of Athens Academic positions 2011- : Associate Professor of Economic Analysis, Department of Financial and Management Engineering, University of the Aegean 2002-2010: Assistant Professor of Economic Analysis, (same Institution - tenured in 2008) 2001-2002: Adjunct Assistant Professor (same Institution) 2000-2001: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, Patras University 1995-1997: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University Paris VII, Denis Diderot 1998-2007: Research Associate, Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics (LIEE), National Technical University of Athens Research Interests: institutional and evolutionary economics, history and methodology of economic analysis, political economy of post-industrial capitalism. 1
International Activities - Responsibilities 2016: Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Management Studies (IMS), Goldsmiths, University of London (October and November 2016) 2014 - : Member of the Auditing Committee of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) 2013-4: Member of the Scientific Committee of the 2014 EAEPE Conference in Nicosia 2013 - : Member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for European Economic Development (FEED), http://www.feed-charity.org/ 2012-2015: Co-Coordinator (with Pr Sebastiano Fadda, University Roma Tre) of the Research Area Labour Economics in EAEPE 2011-2: Member of the Scientific Committee of the 2012 EAEPE Conference in Krakow 2010: Visiting Scholar in the Department of Economics of The New School for Social Research (2010 spring term) Distinctions 2010: Κ. William Kapp Prize for the best article European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy 1991-2: Scholarship of the Alexander Onassis Foundation 1987-91: Scholarship of the Greek State Scholarships Foundation II. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE Present Administrative Duties 2002: Member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee at my Department 2002: Coordinator of the Graduate Employment Committee at my Department Past Administrative Duties 2009-2017: Responsible for the Student Psychological Support Unit of the University of the Aegean in Chios 09/2014 08/2016: Head of Department 09/2014 08/2016: Member of the Academic Board (Senate), University of the Aegean 09/2012 08/2014: Vice Head of Department 2002-3: Representative of the Assistant Professors in the Academic Board 2005-9: Member of the Finance Committee of the Business School 2
III. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Present Courses (all in the Department of Financial and Management Engineering (FME): Macroeconomics (since 2001) Applied Microeconomics (since 2001) Industrial Organization and Game Theory (since 2003) Introduction to Economics (since 2017) Past Courses: International Macroeconomics and Finance (2013-2015) Introduction to Economic Paradigms (FME, 2001-2012) Competitiveness and Public Policy (FME, 2004-5) Introduction to Economic Analysis (FME, MSc Programme, various years) Microeconomics II (Department of Business Administration, University of the Aegean, 2001-2), Introduction to Political Economy II (Department of Business Administration, University of Patras, 2000-1), Industrial Economics (University Paris VII, 1996-7) International Trade (University Paris VII, 1996-7) Past Tutorials (all in the University Paris VII, 1995-1997): History of Economic Thought Economic History Income Distribution (Macroeconomics II) Introduction to Economics a) Articles in Journals IV. PUBLICATIONS 14. Liagouras G. (2018a), On the social origins of economic divergence: Familism, business and state in Greece, forthcoming in West-European Politics, Special Issue on Peripheries in Competition? The Politics and Political Economy of Convergence and Divergence in the European Union. 13. Liagouras, G. (2018b), Economic growth, happiness and socialism: Durkheim s critique of economic reason and beyond, forthcoming in New Political Economy, 3
12. Liagouras, G. (2017), The challenge of Evo-Devo: Implications for evolutionary economists, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, vol. 27, No 4, pp. 795-823. 11. Liagouras, G. (2016), From heterodox political economy to Generalized Darwinism: Geoffrey Hodgson s tensions in retrospect, Review of Radical Political Economics, vol. 48, No 3, pp. 467-484. 10. Liagouras, G. (2013), Lost in translation: Why Generalized Darwinism is a misleading strategy for studying socio-economic evolution, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 72, No 5, pp. 1255-86. 9. Liagouras, G. (2010), What can we learn from the failures of technology and innovation policies in the European periphery, European Urban and Regional Studies, vol. 17, No 3, pp. 331-349. 8. Liagouras, G. (2009), Socio-economic evolution and Darwinism in Thorstein Veblen: A critical appraisal, Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol. 33, No 6, pp. 1047-64. 2010 Κ. William Kapp Prize for the best article European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. 7. Liagouras, G. (2005), The political economy of post-industrial capitalism, Thesis Eleven, Νο 81, pp. 20-35. 6. Liagouras, G. (2004), Flexibilité du travail parasubordonné et rigidité des statistiques officielles. Le cas de la Grèce, Economies et Sociétés, Série Socio- Economie du Travail, No 23/1, pp. 113-145. 5. Liagouras, G., Protogerou, A., & Caloghirou, Y. (2003), Exploring mismatches between higher education and labour market in Greece, European Journal of Education, vol. 38, No 4, pp. 413-426. 4. Liagouras, G. (2000a), Dynamique industrielle et temps historique. Une réponse à Jacques De Bandt, Economie Appliquée, t. LIII, No 3, pp. 173-180. 3. Liagouras, G. (2000b), Evolutionnisme et économie des conventions. Sur les limites symétriques de deux hétérodoxies actuelles, Economies et Sociétés, Série Théorie de la Régulation, No XXXIV/1, pp. 183-205. 2. Liagouras, G. (1999), Fondements de la dynamique industrielle et historicité. Une relecture critique de A. Young, E. Penrose και G. Richardson, Economie Appliquée, tome LII, No 3, pp. 41-63. 4
1. Liagouras, G. (1997), La théorie de la régulation face à l'émergence d'un capitalisme post-industriel, La Lettre de la Régulation, Νο 21, pp. 1-3. Forthcoming reprint in Robert Boyer (ed): La Théorie de la Régulation au Fil du Temps. Suivre l Evolution d un Paradigme au gré des Transformations des Capitalismes Contemporains, édité par l Association Recherche & Régulation. b) Books 1. Papagiannakis, L. & Liagouras, G. (2007), Labour-Market Entry and Career Pathways of the Young Engineers in Greece, Athens, NTUA Editions. c) Chapters in books 4. Liagouras, G. (2017), Population thinking vs. essentialism in biology and evolutionary economics, in H. Hanappi, S. Katsikides, M. Scholz Wäckerle (eds), Evolutionary Political Economy in Action. A Cyprus Symposium, Routledge, pp. 36-53. 3. Liagouras, G. (2011), Measurement problems in services: Technical difficulties or obsolescence of the industrial paradigm?, in A. Dedousopoulos and Th. Koutroukis (ed.), The Growth of the Services Sector, Athens : Kritiki Editions, pp. 51-81 (in Greek). 2. Liagouras, G. (2008), Almost everything you would like to know about technology and growth and you will never be told by neo-schumpeterians, in W. Elsner and H. Hanappi: Varieties of Capitalism and New Institutional Deals, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publ., pp. 323-43. 1. Liagouras, G. (2007), Economics and sociology in the transition from industrial to post-industrial capitalism, in S. Ioannides & K. Nielsen (eds), Economics and the Social Sciences: Boundaries, Interaction and Integration, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publ., pp.63-90. d) Articles in Conference Proceedings 4. Liagouras, G. (2008a), The professional profile of the engineer in the Greek economy: Current state, historical evolution and future perspectives, Proceedings of the 3 rd Conference on Industry of Technical Chamber of Greece (TCG): The Greek Industry in the Knowledge-based Economy, Athens: TCG Editions, pp. 503-17 (in Greek). 5
3. Liagouras, G. (2008b), Employment and education of engineers in the fields of economics and management: International trends and the Greek case, Proceedings of the 3 rd Conference on Industry of Technical Chamber of Greece (TCG): The Greek Industry in the Knowledge-based Economy, Athens: TCG Editions, pp. 518-36 (in Greek). 2. Liagouras, G. (2004), Economic policy versus growth regimes explanations of economic performance. The Greek economy during the period 1975-2001, Proceedings of the 9 th Conference of Sakis Karagiorgas Foundation on Social Change in Modern Greece, Athens, pp. 335-64 (in Greek). 1. Liagouras, G., Zambarloukos, S., & Constantelou, Α. (2004), The long road from technology to development. Impasses and challenges of technology policy in intermediate economies, DRUID Summer Conference on Industrial Dynamics, Innovation and Development, Elsinore, Denmark, June, 14-16 June 2004, URL: removed e) Working Papers Work in Progress 3. Liagouras G. (2018), Does essentialism need help from population thinking for the study of capitalism and its varieties?, submitted to Review of Political Economy. 2. Liagouras, G. (2016), Path-dependence three decades after: Has the promise of historical economics been fulfilled?, 2015 Annual EAEPE Conference, 3-5 Νovember 2016, University of Genoa. 1. Liagouras, G. (2014), Theorising the economy as an ever-evolving process: The case of American Institutionalism. Modified version of my presentation in the 2008 Annual EAEPE Conference: Labour, Institutions and Growth in a Global Economy, 6-8 November 2008, University Roma Tre. f) Other Works 1. Liagouras, G. (2012), The entrepreneur in the history of economic thought, chapter for the course of Entrepreneurship in the University of The Aegean (in Greek). g) Citations http://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=zinf8yiaaaaj&hl=en 6