John Milios
Biographic Data
| ID | 714118 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Milios |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Milios |
| SIGNATURE | MILIOS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Technical University of Athens |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8587-6241 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Nationalism as a Claim to a State: The Greek Revolution of 1821 and the Formation of Modern Greece
"In theorising on the causes, preconditions, dynamics and internal conflicts of the Greek Revolution of 1821, the analysis of Milios tackles the issue of bourgeois revolutions in general. Additionally, his investigation of the historical emergence and the limits of the Greek nation, calls forth the broader theoretical and historical question of the economic, political, and ideological presuppositions of nation-building. The book illustrates how n…
Seeking the “Spirit of Capitalism”: The German Historical School and the Controversies about the Origins of Capitalism
The question of the origins or genesis of capitalism preoccupied the writers of the so-called German Historical School and led to fierce disputes between them in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Its “background” was Marx's theory of capitalism and its genesis in Capital, against which the authors under consideration attempted to formulate an alternative historical analysis and theory. The leading figure of the school at the time,…
Marx’s Inquiry into the Birth of Capitalism: Why Does It Matter
Differing approaches to the issue of the beginnings of capitalism imply different conceptualization of what capitalism is. This paper elaborates on the notion of original accumulation. It utilizes the Marxist notion of the mode of production to provide the concept of the historical figure which Marx describes as the pre-capitalist money-owner. Two notions are introduced: (1) The money-begetting slave mode of production, existing since antiquity a…
The Working Class and the Middle Classes in the Greek Economic Crisis: Allies in a Common Anti-Neoliberal Strategy
On the basis of a Marxist analysis of capitalist relations of class power and the class configuration in contemporary advanced capitalist societies, the paper investigates the consequences of the recent economic crisis and of the neoliberal capitalist strategies in Greece (austerity, market liberalization and privatizations), on the one hand for the class structure of the Greek society and on the other for the potential class alliances against ne…
Welfare State and Democracy in Crisis: Reforming the European Model
This title was first published in 2001. Investigating the consequences of restrictive austerity policies and the downsizing of the welfare state this edited collection reflects on possible ways out by analyzing economic developments, social conflicts, legal forms and the prevailing directions of economic policy. According to official figures, around 9.5 per cent of the working population of the European Union is unemployed. Fifteen million Europe…
H ilferding, R udolf (1877–1941)
A prominent Marxist theoretician and socialist politician in Austria and Germany, with his Finance Capital (first published in 1910), Hilferding changed the dominant theoretical paradigm in Marxist economic theory, as he introduced in it the idea of stages of capitalism and the notion of monopoly capitalism. Hilferding's approach thus constitutes the starting point of a new tradition in Marxian economics, which modified Marx's original approach. …
Karl Marx and the Classics: An Essay on Value, Crises and the Capitalist Mode of Production
This title was first published in 2002: By exploring Marxian value theory and its relevance to present issues of economic analysis, such as the circuit of social capital, the quantity theory of money, instability and economic crises, and economic exploitation and its ideological disguise, this volume investigates the conceptual links between Marxian and Classical Political Economy. The book poses and discusses questions that have yet to be tackle…
The Origins of Capitalism as a Social System: The Prevalence of an Aleatory Encounter
Economists, historians and social scientists have offered a variety of conflicting answers to the issue of the beginnings of capitalism and these deviating answers imply different conceptualizations of what capitalism actually is. This book provides a simultaneous inquiry into the origins of capitalism as well as provides a theoretical treatise on capitalism. The Origins of Capitalism as a Social System explores the line between what is and is no…
Transcending the nation: A communist strategy in the era of globalization. A reply to Velissariou
Neoliberalism and austerity are not ‘false policies’, but strategies of increasing profits by reducing labor and welfare costs. In the process of dismantling labor rights and the welfare state, a part of the population is being marginalized. It becomes ‘superfluous’, and its living conditions approach those of the inflowing refugee masses. However, between indigenous and ‘foreign’ (refugee and immigrant) superfluous populations a clear demarcatio…
The ‘Greek Crisis’ and the Austerity Controversy in Europe
Neoliberal Europe in Crisis: Syriza’s Alternative
John G. Milios’s “Neoliberal Europe in Crisis: SYRIZA’s Alternative” links the crisis in Greece to inflows of capital imports and shortfalls of tax revenues in the context of Greek governments’ insistence on neoliberal policies favouring capital and wealthy households, and the Greek state’s clientelist tradition. As an alternative to the austerity policies imposed by the Troika, the last part of the paper presents policy proposals of SYRIZA that …
The Notion of Money from the Grundrisse to Capital
There is a significant conceptual difference in the way that the notion of money is constructed in two major Marxian texts, the Grundrisse and Capital. Two separate strands of theory (or theoretical movements) contribute to this shaping of the concept of money, evolving and combining with each other in a different way in each text. There is also a difference in the structuring of proof: In the Grundrisse money is conceived of as a “symbol” that i…
Emil Lederer and the Schumpeter–Hilferding–Tugan-Baranowsky Nexus
This paper focuses on the thinking of Emil Lederer, one of the leading academic socialists of Germany in the 1920s. Lederer's views on economic development, technical change, credit and business cycles are compared to those of Schumpeter. The paper traces the roots of some of their ideas back to the work of two prominent Marxists, Rudolf Hilferding and Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranowsky. The paper concludes that although Lederer and Schumpeter ar…
The Middle Classes, Class Places, and Class Positions: A Critical Approach to Nicos Poulantzas's Theory
Through a critical rereading of Marxist class theory, a reexamination of the border line between the working and middle classes is undertaken, focusing on the class identity of middle classes with respect to the question of class place and class position. In this context we summarize the arguments in Nicos Poulantzas's approach to the subject (mainly his theory of "pertinent effects", according to which all basic subcategories of the middle class…
Emil Lederer’s Theory of Economic Fluctuations and the Role of Financial Institutions
Emil Lederer was characterized as the “leading academic socialist of Germany in the 1920’s” by Joseph Schumpeter and was a highly respected economist of his time. However, most aspects of his work remain totally unexplored. This paper focuses on Emil Lederer’s theory of economic fluctuations defending the thesis that certain aspects of Lederer’s conceptualization of economic fluctuations underwent considerable modifications when his 1925 article …
Classe operária e classes médias: Situação de classe e posição de classe (uma abordagem crítica da teoria de classes de Nicos Poulantzas)
A partir de uma releitura crítica da teoria marxista de classe, desenvolve-se uma nova investigação em torno da fronteira entre classe operária e classes médias, com enfoque na identidade de classe das classes médias com relação à questão da situação estrutural de classe e da posição de classe. Neste contexto, resumimos os argumentos da abordagem de Nicos Poulantzas a respeito desse tema, de acordo com os quais todas as subcategorias básicas das …
Crisis of Greece or crisis of the euro? A view from the European ‘periphery’
One of the major lessons re-learned from the recent world economic recession is that vulnerability to capitalist cycles may have little or nothing to do with the ‘more fundamental economic strengths and weaknesses’ of an economy. In reality ‘bad things can happen to good economies’
Joseph Schumpeter and the German Historical School
So far Schumpeter's affinities with the German Historical School (GHS) have been inadequately acknowledged or even unexplored in major accounts of Schumpeter's work. This essay argues that Schumpeter's principal theses are consistent with the GHS. Schumpeter's affinity with the GHS is established by examining his writings and his relationship with Schmoller, Max Weber and Sombart. It is demonstrated that Schumpeter's works built heavily on the GH…
Rethinking Imperialism
For over a century 'imperialism' has been a key concept in Left theory and politics, connoting both the aggressiveness and the characteristics of modern capitalism. This book aims at presenting and assessing imperialism as a theoretical concept. Since a variety of different definitions are assigned to the notion of imperialism, it is necessary to put to the test the rigour of these definitions. \n \nThe authors of this volume provide a comprehens…
Rethinking Marx's Value-Form Analysis from an Althusserian Perspective
This article explores Louis Althusser's position that Marx's value theory constitutes a radical break from the classical (Ricardian) notion of value, conceiving value not as a quantity of labor contained in the commodity but as a social relation expressing the immanent regularities of the capitalist mode of production. Nevertheless, Althusser did not fully recognize that the Marxian break with political economy was centered above all in the value…
Emil Lederer and Joseph Schumpeter on Economic Growth, Technology and Business Cycles
This paper compares Joseph Schumpeter and Emil Lederer with respect to their visions concerning the notions of economic growth, technology and business cycles. Their theoretical investigations in a number of thematic areas seem to converge to similar views. More precisely, both Schumpeter and Lederer regard the capitalist economy as a dynamic system where the introduction of innovations is its distinctive characteristic. In such a system, static …
Tugan-Baranowsky and Effective Demand
Tugan-Baranowsky criticized underconsuption crisis theories on the basis of Marx's reproduction schemes in Vol. II of Capital. However, he incorporated in his analysis the “absolute immiseration thesis,” and claimed that “proportionality” between production sectors would exclude any possibility of crisis, despite the supposedly continuous fall in mass consumption. This approach allows for a Keynesian interpretation of Marx's theory of expanded re…
Louis Althusser and the Forms of Concealment of Capitalist Exploitation. A Rejoinder to Mike Wayne
Did Hilferding Influence Schumpeter?
In this paper, the origins of some of Joseph Alois Schumpeter’s views are traced back to Rudolf Hilferding’s Finance Capital, regarding the Schumpeterian hypothesis and the separation of roles between capitalists, entrepreneurs and managers. After a careful examination of Hilferding’s writings, the conclusion may be drawn that Schumpeter expresses ideas very similar to Hilferding’s, and seems to have been influenced by his conceptualisation of a …
Commodity Fetishism vs. Capital Fetishism: Marxist Interpretations vis-à-vis Marx's Analyses in Capital
The Middle Classes, Class Places, and Class Positions: A Critical Approach to Nicos Poulantzas's Theory
Through a critical rereading of Marxist class theory, a reexamination of the border line between the working and middle classes is undertaken, focusing on the class identity of middle classes with respect to the question of class place and class position. In this context we summarize the arguments in Nicos Poulantzas's approach to the subject (mainly his theory of "pertinent effects", according to which all basic subcategories of the middle class…
Commodity Fetishism vs. Capital Fetishism: Marxist Interpretations vis-à-vis Marx's Analyses in Capital
Social Classes in Classical and Marxist Political Economy
The notion social class attains a well-defined theoretical content in the works of the classical political economists, who defined classes on the basis of the specific income form that each category of people (class) obtains. This approach to class constitutes a first form of a 'friendly merger' between political economy and sociology. When combined with the classical labor value theory, it has led to a theory of class exploitation of the laborin…
Marx's Theory and the Historic Marxist Controversy on Economic Crisis (1900-1937)
In the work of Marx, a general theory of economic crises cannot be found. This fact contributed to the formulation of different and generally contradicting Marxist crisis theories. Critical presentation of the dispute among the three major historic Marxist approaches to .economic crises — the underconsumptionist approach, the theory of capital overaccumulation and the tendentially falling profit rate — leads us to advocate a version of the overac…
Rethinking Marx's Value-Form Analysis from an Althusserian Perspective
This article explores Louis Althusser's position that Marx's value theory constitutes a radical break from the classical (Ricardian) notion of value, conceiving value not as a quantity of labor contained in the commodity but as a social relation expressing the immanent regularities of the capitalist mode of production. Nevertheless, Althusser did not fully recognize that the Marxian break with political economy was centered above all in the value…
Classe operária e classes médias: Situação de classe e posição de classe (uma abordagem crítica da teoria de classes de Nicos Poulantzas)
A partir de uma releitura crítica da teoria marxista de classe, desenvolve-se uma nova investigação em torno da fronteira entre classe operária e classes médias, com enfoque na identidade de classe das classes médias com relação à questão da situação estrutural de classe e da posição de classe. Neste contexto, resumimos os argumentos da abordagem de Nicos Poulantzas a respeito desse tema, de acordo com os quais todas as subcategorias básicas das …
Preindustrial Capitalist Forms: Lenin's Contribution to a Marxist Theory of Economic Development
Transcending the nation: A communist strategy in the era of globalization. A reply to Velissariou
Neoliberalism and austerity are not ‘false policies’, but strategies of increasing profits by reducing labor and welfare costs. In the process of dismantling labor rights and the welfare state, a part of the population is being marginalized. It becomes ‘superfluous’, and its living conditions approach those of the inflowing refugee masses. However, between indigenous and ‘foreign’ (refugee and immigrant) superfluous populations a clear demarcatio…
Tugan-Baranowsky and Effective Demand
Tugan-Baranowsky criticized underconsuption crisis theories on the basis of Marx's reproduction schemes in Vol. II of Capital. However, he incorporated in his analysis the “absolute immiseration thesis,” and claimed that “proportionality” between production sectors would exclude any possibility of crisis, despite the supposedly continuous fall in mass consumption. This approach allows for a Keynesian interpretation of Marx's theory of expanded re…
Louis Althusser and the Forms of Concealment of Capitalist Exploitation. A Rejoinder to Mike Wayne
Marx's Theory and the Historic Marxist Controversy on Economic Crisis (1900-1937)
In the work of Marx, a general theory of economic crises cannot be found. This fact contributed to the formulation of different and generally contradicting Marxist crisis theories. Critical presentation of the dispute among the three major historic Marxist approaches to .economic crises — the underconsumptionist approach, the theory of capital overaccumulation and the tendentially falling profit rate — leads us to advocate a version of the overac…
Marxist Theory and Marxism as a Mass Ideology: The Effects of the Collapse of “Really Existing Socialism” on West European Marxism
(1995). Marxist Theory and Marxism as a Mass Ideology: The Effects of the Collapse of “Really Existing Socialism” on West European Marxism. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 61-74
Cuba: A Question of Social Solidarity
Preindustrial Capitalist Forms: Lenin's Contribution to a Marxist Theory of Economic Development
Social Classes in Classical and Marxist Political Economy
The notion social class attains a well-defined theoretical content in the works of the classical political economists, who defined classes on the basis of the specific income form that each category of people (class) obtains. This approach to class constitutes a first form of a 'friendly merger' between political economy and sociology. When combined with the classical labor value theory, it has led to a theory of class exploitation of the laborin…
Karl Marx and the Classics: An Essay on Value, Crises and the Capitalist Mode of Production
Part 1 Value and money: introduction - on the objects of Marx's critique of political economy Marx versus Ricardo (Marx's theory of value) money and capital (Marx's theory of money and the circuit of capital). Part 2 Theory of value and ideology: the question of commodity fetishism. Part 3 Theory of value and prices - Marx's ambivalence towards classical political economy: social capital and the general rate of theory of value and ground rent (Sm…
Commodity Fetishism vs. Capital Fetishism: Marxist Interpretations vis-à-vis Marx's Analyses in Capital
Did Hilferding Influence Schumpeter?
In this paper, the origins of some of Joseph Alois Schumpeter’s views are traced back to Rudolf Hilferding’s Finance Capital, regarding the Schumpeterian hypothesis and the separation of roles between capitalists, entrepreneurs and managers. After a careful examination of Hilferding’s writings, the conclusion may be drawn that Schumpeter expresses ideas very similar to Hilferding’s, and seems to have been influenced by his conceptualisation of a …
Louis Althusser and the Forms of Concealment of Capitalist Exploitation. A Rejoinder to Mike Wayne
Tugan-Baranowsky and Effective Demand
Tugan-Baranowsky criticized underconsuption crisis theories on the basis of Marx's reproduction schemes in Vol. II of Capital. However, he incorporated in his analysis the “absolute immiseration thesis,” and claimed that “proportionality” between production sectors would exclude any possibility of crisis, despite the supposedly continuous fall in mass consumption. This approach allows for a Keynesian interpretation of Marx's theory of expanded re…
Joseph Schumpeter and the German Historical School
So far Schumpeter's affinities with the German Historical School (GHS) have been inadequately acknowledged or even unexplored in major accounts of Schumpeter's work. This essay argues that Schumpeter's principal theses are consistent with the GHS. Schumpeter's affinity with the GHS is established by examining his writings and his relationship with Schmoller, Max Weber and Sombart. It is demonstrated that Schumpeter's works built heavily on the GH…
Rethinking Imperialism
For over a century 'imperialism' has been a key concept in Left theory and politics, connoting both the aggressiveness and the characteristics of modern capitalism. This book aims at presenting and assessing imperialism as a theoretical concept. Since a variety of different definitions are assigned to the notion of imperialism, it is necessary to put to the test the rigour of these definitions. \n \nThe authors of this volume provide a comprehens…
Rethinking Marx's Value-Form Analysis from an Althusserian Perspective
This article explores Louis Althusser's position that Marx's value theory constitutes a radical break from the classical (Ricardian) notion of value, conceiving value not as a quantity of labor contained in the commodity but as a social relation expressing the immanent regularities of the capitalist mode of production. Nevertheless, Althusser did not fully recognize that the Marxian break with political economy was centered above all in the value…
Emil Lederer and Joseph Schumpeter on Economic Growth, Technology and Business Cycles
This paper compares Joseph Schumpeter and Emil Lederer with respect to their visions concerning the notions of economic growth, technology and business cycles. Their theoretical investigations in a number of thematic areas seem to converge to similar views. More precisely, both Schumpeter and Lederer regard the capitalist economy as a dynamic system where the introduction of innovations is its distinctive characteristic. In such a system, static …
Crisis of Greece or crisis of the euro? A view from the European ‘periphery’
One of the major lessons re-learned from the recent world economic recession is that vulnerability to capitalist cycles may have little or nothing to do with the ‘more fundamental economic strengths and weaknesses’ of an economy. In reality ‘bad things can happen to good economies’
Emil Lederer and the Schumpeter–Hilferding–Tugan-Baranowsky Nexus
This paper focuses on the thinking of Emil Lederer, one of the leading academic socialists of Germany in the 1920s. Lederer's views on economic development, technical change, credit and business cycles are compared to those of Schumpeter. The paper traces the roots of some of their ideas back to the work of two prominent Marxists, Rudolf Hilferding and Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranowsky. The paper concludes that although Lederer and Schumpeter ar…
The Middle Classes, Class Places, and Class Positions: A Critical Approach to Nicos Poulantzas's Theory
Through a critical rereading of Marxist class theory, a reexamination of the border line between the working and middle classes is undertaken, focusing on the class identity of middle classes with respect to the question of class place and class position. In this context we summarize the arguments in Nicos Poulantzas's approach to the subject (mainly his theory of "pertinent effects", according to which all basic subcategories of the middle class…
Emil Lederer’s Theory of Economic Fluctuations and the Role of Financial Institutions
Emil Lederer was characterized as the “leading academic socialist of Germany in the 1920’s” by Joseph Schumpeter and was a highly respected economist of his time. However, most aspects of his work remain totally unexplored. This paper focuses on Emil Lederer’s theory of economic fluctuations defending the thesis that certain aspects of Lederer’s conceptualization of economic fluctuations underwent considerable modifications when his 1925 article …
Classe operária e classes médias: Situação de classe e posição de classe (uma abordagem crítica da teoria de classes de Nicos Poulantzas)
A partir de uma releitura crítica da teoria marxista de classe, desenvolve-se uma nova investigação em torno da fronteira entre classe operária e classes médias, com enfoque na identidade de classe das classes médias com relação à questão da situação estrutural de classe e da posição de classe. Neste contexto, resumimos os argumentos da abordagem de Nicos Poulantzas a respeito desse tema, de acordo com os quais todas as subcategorias básicas das …
The Notion of Money from the Grundrisse to Capital
There is a significant conceptual difference in the way that the notion of money is constructed in two major Marxian texts, the Grundrisse and Capital. Two separate strands of theory (or theoretical movements) contribute to this shaping of the concept of money, evolving and combining with each other in a different way in each text. There is also a difference in the structuring of proof: In the Grundrisse money is conceived of as a “symbol” that i…
Neoliberal Europe in Crisis: Syriza’s Alternative
John G. Milios’s “Neoliberal Europe in Crisis: SYRIZA’s Alternative” links the crisis in Greece to inflows of capital imports and shortfalls of tax revenues in the context of Greek governments’ insistence on neoliberal policies favouring capital and wealthy households, and the Greek state’s clientelist tradition. As an alternative to the austerity policies imposed by the Troika, the last part of the paper presents policy proposals of SYRIZA that …
The ‘Greek Crisis’ and the Austerity Controversy in Europe
Welfare State and Democracy in Crisis: Reforming the European Model
This title was first published in 2001. Investigating the consequences of restrictive austerity policies and the downsizing of the welfare state this edited collection reflects on possible ways out by analyzing economic developments, social conflicts, legal forms and the prevailing directions of economic policy. According to official figures, around 9.5 per cent of the working population of the European Union is unemployed. Fifteen million Europe…
H ilferding, R udolf (1877–1941)
A prominent Marxist theoretician and socialist politician in Austria and Germany, with his Finance Capital (first published in 1910), Hilferding changed the dominant theoretical paradigm in Marxist economic theory, as he introduced in it the idea of stages of capitalism and the notion of monopoly capitalism. Hilferding's approach thus constitutes the starting point of a new tradition in Marxian economics, which modified Marx's original approach. …
Karl Marx and the Classics: An Essay on Value, Crises and the Capitalist Mode of Production
This title was first published in 2002: By exploring Marxian value theory and its relevance to present issues of economic analysis, such as the circuit of social capital, the quantity theory of money, instability and economic crises, and economic exploitation and its ideological disguise, this volume investigates the conceptual links between Marxian and Classical Political Economy. The book poses and discusses questions that have yet to be tackle…
Economics (27 works) · Law (23 works) · Political science (23 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (22 works) · Neoclassical economics (21 works) · Politics (19 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Capitalism (14 works) · Law (14 works)