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The expected legacy of the Games – as seen in the last weeks before the Flame was lit
When expectations over the Athens Olympics were running high 2024 is an Olympic Year, with the Paris Summer Olympics already causing ripples worldwide. One year short of its own “silver jubilee”, the 2004 Athens Olympic Games had an inauspicious event to mull over: the Olympic Stadium roof – a landmark designed by Catalen architect Santiago Calatrava – was declared unsafe as of dubious structural stability. The maintenance of the Calatrava roof, an intricate web of steel tubings and glass, was [...]
The construction sector and the Games
When expectations over the Athens Olympics were running high 2024 is an Olympic Year, with the Paris Summer Olympics already causing ripples worldwide. One year short of its own “silver jubilee”, the 2004 Athens Olympic Games had an inauspicious event to mull over: the Olympic Stadium roof – a landmark designed by Catalen architect Santiago Calatrava – was declared unsafe as of dubious structural stability. The maintenance of the Calatrava roof, an intricate web of steel tubings and glass, was [...]
The expected impact of the Games in real estate
When expectations over the Athens Olympics were running high 2024 is an Olympic Year, with the Paris Summer Olympics already causing ripples worldwide. One year short of its own “silver jubilee”, the 2004 Athens Olympic Games had an inauspicious event to mull over: the Olympic Stadium roof – a landmark designed by Catalen architect Santiago Calatrava – was declared unsafe as of dubious structural stability. The maintenance of the Calatrava roof, an intricate web of steel tubings and glass, was [...]
Further studies about the expected impact of the Athens Games
When expectations over the Athens Olympics were running high 2024 is an Olympic Year, with the Paris Summer Olympics already causing ripples worldwide. One year short of its own “silver jubilee”, the 2004 Athens Olympic Games had an inauspicious event to mull over: the Olympic Stadium roof – a landmark designed by Catalen architect Santiago Calatrava – was declared unsafe as of dubious structural stability. The maintenance of the Calatrava roof, an intricate web of steel tubings and glass, was [...]
When expectations over the Athens Olympics were running high
When expectations over the Athens Olympics were running high 2024 is an Olympic Year, with the Paris Summer Olympics already causing ripples worldwide. One year short of its own “silver jubilee”, the 2004 Athens Olympic Games had an inauspicious event to mull over: the Olympic Stadium roof – a landmark designed by Catalen architect Santiago Calatrava – was declared unsafe as of dubious structural stability. The maintenance of the Calatrava roof, an intricate web of steel tubings and glass, was [...]
The shift from the private purse to foundational activity
Benefaction in Modern Greece Greece is a country with a modern, independent existence ranging just two centuries back. Still it is a society with deep roots in history and with an equally strong sense of collective belonging – also with an important, quite successful Diaspora. So, when the newly formed Greek State had to build social infrastructure, from education to health to transport etc., it relied heavily on donations coming from successful Greeks, mainly of the Diaspora. These donations supplemented [...]
“Who are we?” a quest for Greek identity
“Who are we?” a quest for Greek identity On December 14 (19:00), at the Museum of the City of Athens (Paparrigopoulou 5-7, Klathmonos Square) a debate will take place, based on a series of books by Giorgos-Stylianos Prevelakis. He taught geography and geopolitics in France, USA and Britain with an emphasis on diasporas and population movements. For two terms he was Permanent Representative of Greece to the OECD, while his is the initiative to create an OECD Population Center in [...]
Benefaction s. volunteerism
Benefaction in Modern Greece Greece is a country with a modern, independent existence ranging just two centuries back. Still it is a society with deep roots in history and with an equally strong sense of collective belonging – also with an important, quite successful Diaspora. So, when the newly formed Greek State had to build social infrastructure, from education to health to transport etc., it relied heavily on donations coming from successful Greeks, mainly of the Diaspora. These donations supplemented [...]
Benefaction vs philanthropy
Benefaction in Modern Greece Greece is a country with a modern, independent existence ranging just two centuries back. Still it is a society with deep roots in history and with an equally strong sense of collective belonging – also with an important, quite successful Diaspora. So, when the newly formed Greek State had to build social infrastructure, from education to health to transport etc., it relied heavily on donations coming from successful Greeks, mainly of the Diaspora. These donations supplemented [...]
Benefaction: an elite manifestation?
Benefaction in Modern Greece Greece is a country with a modern, independent existence ranging just two centuries back. Still it is a society with deep roots in history and with an equally strong sense of collective belonging – also with an important, quite successful Diaspora. So, when the newly formed Greek State had to build social infrastructure, from education to health to transport etc., it relied heavily on donations coming from successful Greeks, mainly of the Diaspora. These donations supplemented [...]
The intellectual and ideological roots of benefaction
Benefaction in Modern Greece Greece is a country with a modern, independent existence ranging just two centuries back. Still it is a society with deep roots in history and with an equally strong sense of collective belonging – also with an important, quite successful Diaspora. So, when the newly formed Greek State had to build social infrastructure, from education to health to transport etc., it relied heavily on donations coming from successful Greeks, mainly of the Diaspora. These donations supplemented [...]
From individualism to social cohesiveness
Benefaction in Modern Greece Greece is a country with a modern, independent existence ranging just two centuries back. Still it is a society with deep roots in history and with an equally strong sense of collective belonging – also with an important, quite successful Diaspora. So, when the newly formed Greek State had to build social infrastructure, from education to health to transport etc., it relied heavily on donations coming from successful Greeks, mainly of the Diaspora. These donations supplemented [...]
Organisational forms of Greek communities
Benefaction in Modern Greece Greece is a country with a modern, independent existence ranging just two centuries back. Still it is a society with deep roots in history and with an equally strong sense of collective belonging – also with an important, quite successful Diaspora. So, when the newly formed Greek State had to build social infrastructure, from education to health to transport etc., it relied heavily on donations coming from successful Greeks, mainly of the Diaspora. These donations supplemented [...]
The community reflexes of Greeks in Egypt
Benefaction in Modern Greece Greece is a country with a modern, independent existence ranging just two centuries back. Still it is a society with deep roots in history and with an equally strong sense of collective belonging – also with an important, quite successful Diaspora. So, when the newly formed Greek State had to build social infrastructure, from education to health to transport etc., it relied heavily on donations coming from successful Greeks, mainly of the Diaspora. These donations supplemented [...]
Greeks/Hellenism in Egypt: the matrix of benefaction
Benefaction in Modern Greece Greece is a country with a modern, independent existence ranging just two centuries back. Still it is a society with deep roots in history and with an equally strong sense of collective belonging – also with an important, quite successful Diaspora. So, when the newly formed Greek State had to build social infrastructure, from education to health to transport etc., it relied heavily on donations coming from successful Greeks, mainly of the Diaspora. These donations supplemented [...]
Benefaction in Modern Greece
Benefaction in Modern Greece Greece is a country with a modern, independent existence ranging just two centuries back. Still it is a society with deep roots in history and with an equally strong sense of collective belonging – also with an important, quite successful Diaspora. So, when the newly formed Greek State had to build social infrastructure, from education to health to transport etc., it relied heavily on donations coming from successful Greeks, mainly of the Diaspora. These donations supplemented [...]
The Euromarket is called to deal with a crisis situation
After a long, illustrious but finally tumultuous and problem-riddled course starting in the Sixties, LIBOR – the London Interbank Offered Rate – was phased out in mid-2021 and is ending now, in mid-2023 as the main instrument helping the Euromarkets to develop and flourish, hosting an overhang of dollar liquidity (Eurodollars) and allowing for massive finance to be made available to businesses from London as a central global financial place. The financial engineering behind this financial phenomenon was largely the [...]
The new Euromarket takes off
After a long, illustrious but finally tumultuous and problem-riddled course starting in the Sixties, LIBOR – the London Interbank Offered Rate – was phased out in mid-2021 and is ending now, in mid-2023 as the main instrument helping the Euromarkets to develop and flourish, hosting an overhang of dollar liquidity (Eurodollars) and allowing for massive finance to be made available to businesses from London as a central global financial place. The financial engineering behind this financial phenomenon was largely the [...]
The birth of LIBOR
After a long, illustrious but finally tumultuous and problem-riddled course starting in the Sixties, LIBOR – the London Interbank Offered Rate – was phased out in mid-2021 and is ending now, in mid-2023 as the main instrument helping the Euromarkets to develop and flourish, hosting an overhang of dollar liquidity (Eurodollars) and allowing for massive finance to be made available to businesses from London as a central global financial place. The financial engineering behind this financial phenomenon was largely the [...]
The emergence of LIBOR, the era of the Eurodollar – and the Minos Zombanakis saga
After a long, illustrious but finally tumultuous and problem-riddled course starting in the Sixties, LIBOR – the London Interbank Offered Rate – was phased out in mid-2021 and is ending now, in mid-2023 as the main instrument helping the Euromarkets to develop and flourish, hosting an overhang of dollar liquidity (Eurodollars) and allowing for massive finance to be made available to businesses from London as a central global financial place. The financial engineering behind this financial phenomenon was largely the [...]
The network element of the Greek experience: shipping and the diaspora
“Who are we?” A quest for Greek identity Who are we? The geopolitics of Greek identity, published by Kerkyra Publications-economia Publishing in 2017, is a book by George Prevelakis, professor emeritus at Sorbonne, who has taught at Sciences Po, Johns Hopkins, Tufts and LSE and whose interests have ranged all the way from urban planning to geopolitics to the study of diasporas, tries to deliver a number of answers to the seminal question that has hunted Greece and Greeks: “Who are we?”. As [...]
Greek identity, family and education
“Who are we?” A quest for Greek identity Who are we? The geopolitics of Greek identity, published by Kerkyra Publications-economia Publishing in 2017, is a book by George Prevelakis, professor emeritus at Sorbonne, who has taught at Sciences Po, Johns Hopkins, Tufts and LSE and whose interests have ranged all the way from urban planning to geopolitics to the study of diasporas, tries to deliver a number of answers to the seminal question that has hunted Greece and Greeks: “Who are we?”. As [...]
Greece in the intersection of contradictory worlds
“Who are we?” A quest for Greek identity Who are we? The geopolitics of Greek identity, published by Kerkyra Publications-economia Publishing in 2017, is a book by George Prevelakis, professor emeritus at Sorbonne, who has taught at Sciences Po, Johns Hopkins, Tufts and LSE and whose interests have ranged all the way from urban planning to geopolitics to the study of diasporas, tries to deliver a number of answers to the seminal question that has hunted Greece and Greeks: “Who are we?”. As [...]
Who are we? – To whom does Greek civilization belong?
“Who are we?” A quest for Greek identity Who are we? The geopolitics of Greek identity, published by Kerkyra Publications-economia Publishing in 2017, is a book by George Prevelakis, professor emeritus at Sorbonne, who has taught at Sciences Po, Johns Hopkins, Tufts and LSE and whose interests have ranged all the way from urban planning to geopolitics to the study of diasporas, tries to deliver a number of answers to the seminal question that has hunted Greece and Greeks: “Who [...]
Cretan Music. Unraveling Ariadne’s thread, part 2
Cretan Music. Unraveling Ariadne’s thread “Crete is an island where many people from different countries, cultures and religions have lived and have left their traces. So isn’t music in Crete today a product of all these mixtures and cultural elements?” In Cretan Music. Unraveling Ariadne’s thread, published by Kerkyra Publications-economia Publishing in 2007, Dr. Hnaraki’s self-posed question is answered in the affirmative as the author takes the reader on a journey of discovery through the five steps – or five chapters – of this [...]