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Xenophon Zolotas (Xenophon Euthymiou Zolotas) was born on 26 April, 1904 in Athens, Greece, is a Greek economist (1904–2004). Discover Xenophon Zolotas's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 100 years old?

Popular As Xenophon Euthymiou Zolotas
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Age 100 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 26 April 1904
Birthday 26 April
Birthplace Athens, Greece
Date of death 10 June, 2004
Died Place Athens, Greece
Nationality Greece

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1904

Xenophon Euthymiou Zolotas (Ξενοφών Ζολώτας; 26 April 1904 – 10 June 2004) was a Greek economist and served as an interim non-party Prime Minister of Greece.

Born in Athens on 26 April 1904.

He graduated from Rizarios Ecclesiastical School in Athens.

Zolotas studied Law at the University of Athens, and later studied at the Leipzig University in Germany and the University of Paris in France.

He came from a wealthy family of goldsmiths with roots in pre-revolutionary Russia.

1928

In 1928 he became Professor of Economics at Athens University and at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a post he held until 1968, when he resigned in protest at the military regime which had come to power in 1967.

1944

Zolotas was director of the Bank of Greece in 1944–1945, 1955–1967 (when he resigned in protest at the regime), and 1974–1981.

He published many works on Greek and international economic topics.

He was a Keynesian, and was active in socialist circles with his close friend, Professor Angelos Angelopoulos.

He is also famous for demonstrating the contribution of Greek language to the English vocabulary by making English speeches, as he said, "using with the exception of articles and prepositions only Greek words", to foreign audiences.

1946

He was a member of the Board of Directors of UNRRA in 1946 and held senior posts in the International Monetary Fund and other international organisations in 1946 and 1981.

1989

When the elections of November 1989 failed to give a majority to either the PASOK party of Andreas Papandreou or the New Democracy party of Constantine Mitsotakis, Zolotas, then aged 85, agreed to become Prime Minister at head of a non-party administration until fresh elections could be held.

1990

He stepped down after the election of April 1990 which gave Mitsotakis a narrow majority.

He was a workaholic and an avid winter swimmer, making a point of swimming every morning throughout the year even into his nineties.

His book Economic Growth and Declining Social Welfare advances the idea that in modern economic growth there is an increasing output of useless and even discomforting things, such as advertising.

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.

2004

Zolotas died on 10 June 2004 at the age of 100.

He is buried in the First Cemetery of Athens.

Two of his speeches in English at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development are considered to be historic and notable because they contained mainly 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, I 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.

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.''

''Kyrie, it is Zeus' anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the heresy of our economic methods and policies that we should agonize the Scylla of numismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia.

It is not my idiosyncrasy to be ironic or sarcastic, but my diagnosis would be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists.

Although they emphatically stigmatize numismatic plethora, 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 between political, strategic and philanthropic scopes.

Political magic has always been anti-economic.

In an epoch characterized by monopolies, oligopolies, monopsonies, monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more orthological.

But this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia, which is endemic among academic economists.

Numismatic symmetry should not hyper-antagonize economic acme.