CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL DATA First/Family Name: George Liodakis Father s Name: Constantin Date and Place of Birth: 6/6/1949, Nithavri, Rethymno, GREECE Marital Status: married, three children Professional Position: Professor of Political Economy Professional Affiliation and Address: Technical University of Crete, Building of Sciences 73 100 Chania, Crete, GREECE Home Address: Ag. Nektariou, Korakies, 73 100 Chania, GREECE Phone number: ++30 (28210) 37317 [office], ++30 (28210) 66614 [home] FAX: ++30 (28210) 37579 E-mail: liod@science.tuc.gr LANGUAGES Greek (native language) English (very good) German (poor) STUDIES / ACADEMIC TITLES University of Athens: BA in Economics (1975) American University, Washington D.C.: Ph.D. in Economics (1980) Technical University of Crete, Dpt of Sciences: Assistant Prof. (1990-94), Associate Prof. (1994-2000), Professor (2000- ) OTHER TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Instructor in introductory economics courses: American University (1979-80) Research associate: Ministry of Finance, Athens (1982-83) Researcher: Agricultural Bank of Greece, Research & Planning Division (1984-90) Visiting Research Fellow: University of London, SOAS (February - July 1998)
2 PUBLICATIONS A. Books: 1. Critique of International Trade Theory: The Case of Greece 1950-1975, Ph. D. Dissertation, American University (1980). Translated and published in Greek by the Agricultural Bank of Greece (ABG), Special Series No 4 (1985). 2. The Technological Modernization of Greek Agriculture, Athens: ABG No 24 (1987). 3. International Division of Labour and Greek Agriculture, Athens: ABG No 40 (1991). 4. (ed.) Society, Technology and Restructuring of Production, Athens: Papazesis (1993). 5. Ground-Rent, Interest Rates and Agricultural Prices: Economic aspects of the agrarian question, Athens: Synchroni Epochi (1994). 6. (ed.) The Agricultural Sector of Crete: Problems and prospects, Chania: TUC (2000). 7. Totalitarian Capitalism and Beyond, Surrey UK, Ashgate Publishing, 2010. B. Articles in journals or chapters in books: 1. Τhe Impact of Greece's Accession to the EC on her Foreign Trade in Agricultural Products Greek Review of Agrarian Studies, 1(4), 1986. 2. International Division of Labor and Uneven Development: A Review of the Theory and Evidence Review of Radical Political Economics, 22(2-3): 189-213, 1990 3. A Critical Assessment of Flexible Specialization in the Case of Greek Industry INNOVATIONS, No 2, 1995. 4. Ragioni di scambio, Transferimenti Internationali di Valore e Sviluppo Ineguale Plusvalore, Νο.12, 1995. Also the same: Terms of Trade, International Transfers of Value and Uneven Development Scientific Yearbook of the University of Macedonia, Vol. ΧΙΙ, Issue 2, pp. 360-384, 1996. 5. Technological Change in Agriculture: A Marxist Critique Sociologia Ruralis, 37(1): 61-78, 1997. 6. The Changing Policy Agenda for European Agriculture: Its Implications for the Greek Olive Oil Sector (with C. Fotopoulos and V. Tzouvelekas), in M. Tracy (ed.), CAP
3 Reform: The Southern Products, Belgium: Agricultural Policy Studies, 1997. 7. Agrarian Question in Ph. O Hara (ed.) Encyclopedia of Political Economy, London, Routledge, 1999 (Vol. 1, pp. 8-10). 8. Environmental Implications of International Trade and Uneven Development: Toward a Critique of Environmental Economics Review of Radical Political Economics, 32(1): 40-79, 2000. 9. A Dialectical Approach to Social Restructuring and Technical Change in Greek Agriculture Agricultural Economics Review, 1(1): 71-84, 2000. 10. Ecological Aspects and Implications of the Marxian Theory of Value (in Russian) ALTERNATIVES, 2: 140-165, 2000. 11. The Political Economy of the Transition and the Transformation Crisis in Eastern Europe East-West Journal of Economic Issues, IV(2): 45-64, 2001. 12. The People-Nature Relation and the Historical Significance of the Labour Theory of Value Capital & Class, n. 73, 2001. 13. The Current Conditions of Trade Unions in Greece (in Italian) PROTEO, n. 1, 2002. 14. On the history and present structure of Greek trade unions (in Italian) PROTEO, n. 2, 2002. 15. The Role of Biotechnology in the Agro-food System and the Socialist Horizon Historical Materialism, 11(1): 37-74, 2003. 16. Nature, Value Theory and Sustainability of Capitalism Science & Society, 67(4): 462-468, 2003. 17. Il ruolo della bio-technologia nel sistema agro-alimentare e l orizzonte della transformazione sociale PROTEO, n. 1, 2004. 18. Increasing Social Conflict from the European Reforms in Education and Research, in G. Macovich (ed.) The Common European Space of Education, Science and Culture, Southern Ural State University, Chelyabinsk 2005. 19. The New Stage of Capitalist Development and the Prospects of Globalization Science & Society, 69(3): 341-366, 2005. 20. The Global Restructuring of Capitalism, New Technologies and Intellectual Property, in B. Laperche, J. K. Galbraith and D. Uzunidis (eds) Innovation, Evolution and Economic Change, Cheltenham: E. Elgar, 2006.
4 21. Finance and Intellectual Property Rights as the two Pillars of Capitalism Changes, in B. Laperche and D. Uzunidis (eds) Powerful Finance and Innovation Trends in a High-Risk Economy, London: Palgrave, 2008 (ch.7). 22. Political Economy, Capitalism and Sustainable Development Sustainability 2010, 2, 2601-2616; (http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/2/8/2601/pdf) 23. Crisis, the emerging new stage of capitalism, and the need of a transnational class strategy for social emancipation International Critical Thought, 2(1): 7-22, 2012. 24. Considering (Economic and Ecological) Crisis from a Communist P erspective Perspectives on Global Development and Technology 12(1-2): 194-218, 2013. C. Other publications: I have also published a number of articles (about 30) in academic journals or chapters in collective volumes published in Greek. Moreover, I have presented more than 30 papers at various international or Greek scientific Conferences, appearing in the relevant Proceedings.
OTHER ORGANIZING AND RESEARCH / ACADEMIC WORK I have organized the International Symposium Society, Technology and Restructuring of Production (Chania, October 1-3, 1992) and edited the Proceedings. I have supervised a collective research project regarding the Agricultural Sector of Crete, and edited the relevant Proceedings. Mainly in charge for the implementation and teaching in the context of the post-graduate programme of Social and Technological Development, in operation in our Department of Sciences during the last 10 years. I have reviewed, as a referee, papers submitted for the Encyclopedia of Political Economy, and for the journals: Review of Economic Science, UTOPIA, Agricultural Economics Review, Capital & Class, and Science & Society.