Xenophon zolotas biography

In , he was a founding member of the Socialist Union and in was appointed joint governor of the Bank of Greece. From to he was a delegate to the Economic Commission for Europe. In , Zolotas was elected to the Athens Academy.

Xenophon zolotas biography

From to , he was governor of the Bank of Greece. In , he resigned from the chair of economics in the Law School of Athens University, to demonstrate his opposition to the dictatorship. They considered him a moderator, a champion of fiscal conservatism and monetary stability. In the November elections, which did not give a majority to Andreas Papandreou's PASOK party or Constantinos Mitsotakis's New Democracy party, Zolotas, at the age of 85, agreed to be prime minister of a non-party government until new elections could be held.

He resigned when elections were held in April which Mitsotakis won by a narrow majority. For that reason modern economic growth cannot be at all considered as creating conditions for further human happiness, a thesis quite in agreement with ideas by authors such as Richard Easterlin or Herman Daly.

Two of his speeches in English are considered to be historic. This is because they contained only terms of Greek origin. Here are the texts:. I always wished to address this Assembly in Greek, but realized that it would have been indeed "Greek" to all present in this room.

I found out, however, that I could make my address in Greek which would still be English to everybody. With your permission, Mr. Chairman, l shall do it now, using with the exception of articles and prepositions, only Greek words. Kyrie, I eulogize the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus and the Ecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms, methods and policies, although there is an episode of cacophony of the Trapeza with Hellas.

With enthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous organizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analyzed and synthesized.

Our critical problems such as the numismatic plethora generate some agony and melancholy. This phenomenon is characteristic of our epoch. Venizelos Plastiras S. Venizelos Plastiras Kiousopoulos 3 Papagos K. Karamanlis Sr. Georgakopoulos 3 K. Dovas 3 K. Pipinelis Sty. Mavromichalis 3 G. Paraskevopoulos 3 G. Novas Tsirimokos Stefanopoulos Paraskevopoulos 3 Kanellopoulos 3.

Kollias 1 Papadopoulos 1 Markezinis 1 Androutsopoulos 1. Rallis A. Papandreou Tzannetakis Grivas 3 Zolotas Ko. Mitsotakis A. Papandreou Simitis K. Karamanlis Jr. Papandreou Jr. Mitsotakis Sarmas 3 Ky. Authority control databases. Deutsche Biographie DDB. Hidden categories: CS1 Greek-language sources el Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Use dmy dates from November Articles containing Greek-language text.

Xenophon zolotas speech

Toggle the table of contents. Xenophon Zolotas. Zolotas in In office 23 November — 11 April Christos Sartzetakis. In office 27 November — 29 October In office 5 February — 5 August Georgios Mantzavinos. In office 12 October — 8 January Preceded by Theodoros Tourkovasilis. Governor of the Bank of Greece — Succeeded by Kyriakos Varvaresos.