Background
Mamalakis, Markos John was born on October 30, 1932 in Salonica, Greece. Arrived in the United States, 1957. Son of John Paul and Renate (Rocha) Mamalakis.
Mamalakis, Markos John was born on October 30, 1932 in Salonica, Greece. Arrived in the United States, 1957. Son of John Paul and Renate (Rocha) Mamalakis.
Born in Salonika, he graduated from the Experimental High School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1950, then attended the Law School of the University and received a Bachelor of Arts in Law, with the distinction summa cum laude in 1955. (1959), and Doctor of Philosophy (1962) with a dissertation entitled Inflation and Growth: An Asset Preference Analysis.
He did graduate work at Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich from 1955 to 1957, and University of California, Berkeley from 1957 to 1962, where he received his Master of Arts With a Case Study of the Chilean Inflation. He has taught or been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. University of Western Ontario.
Universidad de Chile.
Yale; University of Göttingen. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Inter-American Development Bank. And the University of Giessen.
He is a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
He was one of the first to argue that there is no "magic bullet" to development, but that development solutions must take into account the effects and circumstances of the location. He has published widely on macroeconomics in developing economies and welfare and sector effects. He argued for the fruitfulness of a mesoeconomic analysis of social interactions, rather than a strictly microeconomic or macroecomic approach.
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Member of National Academy Economics Uruguay (correspondent academy), Latin American Studies Association, American Economic Association.
Married Angelica Mamalakis, January 30, 1960. Children: Anna, Catherine, Marina, John, Andreas, Philip, Irene, Peter, Joanna, Alexandra, Emmanuel, Thomas.