George Liagouras
Biographic Data
| ID | 712361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Liagouras |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Liagouras |
| SIGNATURE | LIAGOURAS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Aegean |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4410-2741 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Universities developmental role in the EU second-tier periphery: Identifying structural constraints to inform agency debates
Recent agency/leadership approaches regarding the university’s developmental role in the periphery make apparent the underestimation of structural constraints characterizing the literature on regional development over the last three decades. Most literature on the EU periphery focuses on regions that score higher on GDP per capita and quality-of-governance indicators than the bulk of Less Developed Regions (LDRs). Moreover, within the LDRs, there…
Barriers to Innovation in Southern European Public Bureaucracies: A Context-Based Analysis of the Greek Experience
On the social origins of economic divergence: Familism, business and state in Greece
This article’s main argument is that what is really in question behind the present Greek economic crisis is the social model prevailing from the creation of the Greek nation-state up to the present day. The pre-modern institutional logic of the Greek social model can be depicted in terms of the notion of familism which points to the centrality of the nuclear-extended family and its friendship networks as the dominant locus of trust and moral duty…
Economic Growth, Happiness and Socialism: Durkheim’s Critique of Economic Reason and Beyond
The paper argues that Durkheim’s positions on happiness and socialism are relevant in today’s neoliberal and post-affluent societies. Durkheim dissociates happiness from economic progress and makes it contingent upon the relationships between the individual and society. An important component of Durkheimian happiness is the dynamic equilibrium between desires and means. Therefore, his friendly criticism of the socialist project is that it promise…
Lost in Translation: WhyGeneralizedDarwinism is a Misleading Strategy for Studying Socioeconomic Evolution
The article is based on Lewontin's distinction between transformational and variational evolution. Given that transformational evolution is dominant in the social realm while variational evolution reigns in the organic world, the question is ifHodgson andKnudsen'sGeneralizedDarwinism bridges the ontological gap between the two types of evolution. It is argued that the three successive strategies of the authors-deconstruction ofLamarckism, appropr…
What can we learn from the failures of technology and innovation policies in the European periphery
This paper examines the technology policy challenges facing peripheral European Union economies in their effort to catch up with the more advanced countries. It is argued that, generally, the subordinate position of peripheral economies within the EU compels them to replicate the technology policies followed in advanced countries. Yet the latter have proven more or less inappropriate for peripheral countries and regions because they usually do no…
The Political Economy of Post-Industrial Capitalism
The hypothesis of this article is that industrial capitalism, as conceptualized by a series of authors from Smith and Marx to Weber and Sombart, and then to Galbraith and Chandler, is outdated. We are entering a new era of information or 'post-industrial capitalism'. The term used in the article is post-industrial capitalism. This is mainly because the notion of information capitalism does not define explicitly what is really new regarding the hi…
What can we learn from the failures of technology and innovation policies in the European periphery
This paper examines the technology policy challenges facing peripheral European Union economies in their effort to catch up with the more advanced countries. It is argued that, generally, the subordinate position of peripheral economies within the EU compels them to replicate the technology policies followed in advanced countries. Yet the latter have proven more or less inappropriate for peripheral countries and regions because they usually do no…
On the social origins of economic divergence: Familism, business and state in Greece
This article’s main argument is that what is really in question behind the present Greek economic crisis is the social model prevailing from the creation of the Greek nation-state up to the present day. The pre-modern institutional logic of the Greek social model can be depicted in terms of the notion of familism which points to the centrality of the nuclear-extended family and its friendship networks as the dominant locus of trust and moral duty…
The Political Economy of Post-Industrial Capitalism
The hypothesis of this article is that industrial capitalism, as conceptualized by a series of authors from Smith and Marx to Weber and Sombart, and then to Galbraith and Chandler, is outdated. We are entering a new era of information or 'post-industrial capitalism'. The term used in the article is post-industrial capitalism. This is mainly because the notion of information capitalism does not define explicitly what is really new regarding the hi…
The Political Economy of Post-Industrial Capitalism
The hypothesis of this article is that industrial capitalism, as conceptualized by a series of authors from Smith and Marx to Weber and Sombart, and then to Galbraith and Chandler, is outdated. We are entering a new era of information or 'post-industrial capitalism'. The term used in the article is post-industrial capitalism. This is mainly because the notion of information capitalism does not define explicitly what is really new regarding the hi…
What can we learn from the failures of technology and innovation policies in the European periphery
This paper examines the technology policy challenges facing peripheral European Union economies in their effort to catch up with the more advanced countries. It is argued that, generally, the subordinate position of peripheral economies within the EU compels them to replicate the technology policies followed in advanced countries. Yet the latter have proven more or less inappropriate for peripheral countries and regions because they usually do no…
Lost in Translation: WhyGeneralizedDarwinism is a Misleading Strategy for Studying Socioeconomic Evolution
The article is based on Lewontin's distinction between transformational and variational evolution. Given that transformational evolution is dominant in the social realm while variational evolution reigns in the organic world, the question is ifHodgson andKnudsen'sGeneralizedDarwinism bridges the ontological gap between the two types of evolution. It is argued that the three successive strategies of the authors-deconstruction ofLamarckism, appropr…
Economic Growth, Happiness and Socialism: Durkheim’s Critique of Economic Reason and Beyond
The paper argues that Durkheim’s positions on happiness and socialism are relevant in today’s neoliberal and post-affluent societies. Durkheim dissociates happiness from economic progress and makes it contingent upon the relationships between the individual and society. An important component of Durkheimian happiness is the dynamic equilibrium between desires and means. Therefore, his friendly criticism of the socialist project is that it promise…
On the social origins of economic divergence: Familism, business and state in Greece
This article’s main argument is that what is really in question behind the present Greek economic crisis is the social model prevailing from the creation of the Greek nation-state up to the present day. The pre-modern institutional logic of the Greek social model can be depicted in terms of the notion of familism which points to the centrality of the nuclear-extended family and its friendship networks as the dominant locus of trust and moral duty…
Universities developmental role in the EU second-tier periphery: Identifying structural constraints to inform agency debates
Recent agency/leadership approaches regarding the university’s developmental role in the periphery make apparent the underestimation of structural constraints characterizing the literature on regional development over the last three decades. Most literature on the EU periphery focuses on regions that score higher on GDP per capita and quality-of-governance indicators than the bulk of Less Developed Regions (LDRs). Moreover, within the LDRs, there…
Barriers to Innovation in Southern European Public Bureaucracies: A Context-Based Analysis of the Greek Experience
Sociology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Capitalism (2 works) · Economic system (2 works) · European union (2 works) · Innovation Policy and RD (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Neoclassical economics (2 works)