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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 [...]
Cretan Music. Unraveling Ariadne’s thread
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 [...]
Magical Greece, by Andreas Smaragdis
Magical Greece “Wherever I go, Greece wounds me,” the Nobel-prize-winning poet George Seferis wrote. Andreas Smaragdis’ photos in the album Magical Greece, published by Kerkyra Publications-Economia Publishing in 2008 (2nd edition) serve as a balm to that wound, by preserving an image of a beloved landscape and offering a hint of what the photographer calls “the ecstasy of place.” This book, then, with the truly exceptional text by Eleni Gage, a New York-based journalist, author and instructor at Columbia University, is [...]
Vassilis Vassilikos: “The Wizard of Oz who could overcome all barriers”
Mikis Theodorakis. My posters Mikis Theodorakis. My posters, edited by Maria Adamantidis and published by Kerkyra Publications-economia Publishing in 2007, is the first-time ever publication of posters from the personal archive of renowned composer Mikis Theodorakis. A rare and delightful collection of posters from 1952 to the present, spanning more than half a century of concerts from Berlin to Bilbao and from St. Petersburg to St. Paul, as the composer and his orchestra journeyed throughout the modern world spreading the word, always both musical and [...]
Mikis Theodorakis: “We set thousands of fires ablaze everywhere we went”
Mikis Theodorakis. My posters Mikis Theodorakis. My posters, edited by Maria Adamantidis and published by Kerkyra Publications-economia Publishing in 2007, is the first-time ever publication of posters from the personal archive of renowned composer Mikis Theodorakis. A rare and delightful collection of posters from 1952 to the present, spanning more than half a century of concerts from Berlin to Bilbao and from St. Petersburg to St. Paul, as the composer and his orchestra journeyed throughout the modern world spreading the word, always both musical and [...]
Mikis Theodorakis. My posters – Introduction
Mikis Theodorakis. My posters Mikis Theodorakis. My posters, edited by Maria Adamantidis and published by Kerkyra Publications-economia Publishing in 2007, is the first-time ever publication of posters from the personal archive of renowned composer Mikis Theodorakis. A rare and delightful collection of posters from 1952 to the present, spanning more than half a century of concerts from Berlin to Bilbao and from St. Petersburg to St. Paul, as the composer and his orchestra journeyed throughout the modern world spreading the word, always both musical and [...]
Mikis Theodorakis. My posters – Preface
Mikis Theodorakis. My posters Mikis Theodorakis. My posters, edited by Maria Adamantidou and published by Kerkyra Publications-economia Publishing in 2007, is the first-time ever publication of posters from the personal archive of renowned composer Mikis Theodorakis. A rare and delightful collection of posters from 1952 to the present, spanning more than half a century of concerts from Berlin to Bilbao and from St. Petersburg to St. Paul, as the composer and his orchestra journeyed throughout the modern world spreading the [...]
Mikis Theodorakis. Finding Greece in his music: A “universal man” – Part 2
Mikis Theodorakis. Finding Greece in his music The book Mikis Theodorakis. Finding Greece in his music, by Angelique Mouyis and published by Kerkyra Publications-economia Publishing in 2010, interrogates the construction of modern Greek identity in Theodorakis’ music. After examining the composer’s musical and political life in connection with Greece’s modern history and culture, the author focuses on characteristic works of varying genres − from “Axion Esti” and “The Song of the Dead Brother to Lysistrata”– discussing Theodorakis’ unique re-interpretation of modern Greek identity through them, and concludes [...]
Mikis Theodorakis. Finding Greece in his music: A “universal man” – Part 1
Mikis Theodorakis. Finding Greece in his music The book Mikis Theodorakis. Finding Greece in his music, by Angelique Mouyis and published by Kerkyra Publications-economia Publishing in 2010, interrogates the construction of modern Greek identity in Theodorakis’ music. After examining the composer’s musical and political life in connection with Greece’s modern history and culture, the author focuses on characteristic works of varying genres − from “Axion Esti” and “The Song of the Dead Brother to Lysistrata”– discussing Theodorakis’ unique re-interpretation of modern Greek identity through them, and concludes [...]