Xenophon Zolotas

Xenophon Evthymiou Zolotas (Greek Ξενοφών Ευθυμίου Ζολώτας, * March 26, 1904, † 11 June 2004 ) was a Greek economist and 1989 short-term non-party Prime Minister of Greece.

Life

Zolotas studied in Athens, as well as in Leipzig and Paris. 1928 to 1968 he was professor of economics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In the late 1940s he took over together with Ilias Lalaounis the renowned jewelry store Zolotas of family ownership. Due to political and academic obligations Xenophon Zolotas left the shop again

He was a board member of UNRRA and held high office in the International Monetary Fund.

Zolotas was 1944-1945, 1955 and 1967 as well as 1974 and 1981, director of the Bank of Greece. He has published numerous works on Greek and international economic issues.

As in 1989, neither PASOK nor New Democracy could achieve a majority, declared himself the then 85 -year-old ready until new elections to the post of prime minister. As the New Democracy under Konstantinos Mitsotakis reached the majority in the 1990 elections, he resigned.

Famous Speeches

Two of his speeches in English, which he gave as chairman of the Bank of Greece on the final day of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, gaining considerable attention, as they were written exclusively in words derived from Greek. Einleitended to his first speech, he said: I always wished to address this Assembly in Greek, but did Realized it would have been indeed " Greek" to all present in this room. I found out, HOWEVER, did i could make my address in Greek Which would quietly 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.

The speeches in the text:

September 26, 1957

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. But, to my thesis, we have the dynamism to program therapeutic practices as a prophylaxis from chaos and catastrophe. In parallel, a Panethnic unhypocritical economic synergy and Harmonization in a democratic climate is basic. I apologize for my eccentric monologue. I emphasize my euharistia to you, Kyrie to the eugenic and generous American Ethnos and to the organizers and Protagonists of his Amphictyony and the gastronomic symposia.

October 2, 1959

Kyrie, it is Zeus ' anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the heresy of our economic methods and policies did agonize the Scylla of We Should numismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anemia. It is not my idiosyncrasy to be ironic or sarcastic, but my diagnosis would be did politicians are rather cryptoplethorists. Although emphatically stigmatize numismatic plethora They, They energize it through Their tactics and practices. Our policies have to be based more on economic and less on political criteria. Our gnomon Has to be a metron in between political, strategic and philanthropic scopes. Political magic Has always been anti -economic. Add to epoch Characterized by mono- polies, Oligopolies, monopsonies, monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more logical ortho. But this Should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia, Which is endemic among academic economists. Numismatic symmetry Should not antagonize economic acme hyper. A Greater Harmonization Between The practices of the economic and numismatic archons is basic. Parallel to this, we have to synchronize and harmonize more and more our economic and numismatic policies panethnically. These scopes are more practicable now, when the prognostics of the political and economic barometer are halcyonic. The history of our didymus organizations in this sphere HAS BEEN didactic and Their gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economies. The genesis of the Programmed organization wants Dynamize thesis policies. THEREFORE, I sympathize, Although not without criticism on one or two themes, with the apostles and the hierarchy of our organs in Their zeal to program orthodox economic and numismatic policies, Although I have some Logomachy with them. I apologize for having tyrannized you with my Hellenic phraseology. In my epilogue, I emphasize my eulogy to the philoxenous autochthons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to you, Kyrie, and the stenographers.

  • Prime Minister (Greece )
  • Member of the Academy of Athens
  • University teachers (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens )
  • Greek
  • Born in 1904
  • Died in 2004
  • Man
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