Background
John Milios was born 1952 in Athens as the son of a lawyer and a dentist.
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John Milios
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Education
Having attended the prestigious Athens College, he graduated in the same class with former prime minister George Papandreou, before studying Mechanical Engineering at Technology Union Darmstadt, Germany, and Athens, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1981.
Career
An author of several scholarly books, Milios is also director of the quarterly journal of economic theory Thesseis. During his studies, Milios became interested in political economics, founding the quarterly journal of economic theory Thesseis in 1982. In 1988, he received his second Doctor of Philosophy in Social and Economic Studies at University of Osnabrück, Germany.
Since at least 2012 until March 2015 he was the chief economic adviser to Syriza.
Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras leads a coalition government (Cabinet Tsipras) since the election on 25 January 2015. In February, Milios proposed a scheme to kick start struggling European economies.
lieutenant involved the European Central Bank buying debt from Euro zone countries. lieutenant would hold the debt until the countries Gross domestic product (Gross Domestic Product) rose to five times its value.
("Gross Domestic Product-linked bond") Milios had proposed similar ideas in 2014.
Marxian theory Regarding the Marxian concept of value-form, Milios argues for a monetary theory of value, where "Money is the necessary form of appearance of value (and of capital) in the sense that prices constitute the only form of appearance of the value of commodities." Milios has authored more than two hundred papers published or forthcoming in refereed journals (in Greek, English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Turkish) and has authored or co-authored more than ten scholarly books on marxist theory.
Politics
He is Professor of Political Economy and the History of Economic Thought at the National Technical University of Athens. He was chief economic advisor of the Greek leftist party SYRIZA until March 2015.
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with Dimitris P Sotiropoulos & Spyros Lapatsioras): A Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism and its Crisis.
