Degrees:
M.Sc., SOAS, Univ. of London
B.A., Nat'l Kapodistrian Univ Athens
Thanos Moraitis is a PhD candidate in Economics at UMass Amherst, where he researches business cycles, financial crises, and technical change. He holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and a Master's in Development Economics from SOAS, University of London, both completed with honors. Thanos has extensive experience as a Teaching Assistant, having held positions at three prestigious universities: SOAS University of London, Goldsmiths University of London, and UMass Amherst. Additionally, he has contributed to various projects as a Research Assistant and has co-authored papers in highly regarded peer-reviewed journals. His work has also been featured in a recently published book on current developments in the global capitalist system.
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Political Economy
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Business Cycles
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Technical Change
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Financial Cycles
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History of Economic Thought
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Econometrics
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ECON-364
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Europe and the EU: Economic Dynamics
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Book:
- Lapavitsas, C., ERENSEP Writing Collective., 2023. The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony. Verso.
Publications:
- Basu, D., Haas, C., Moraitis, T., 2023. Intensification of Labor and
the Rate and Form of Exploitation. Review of Radical Political
Economics
- Qin, D., van Huellen, S., Wang, Q.C., Moraitis, T., 2022.
Algorithmic modelling of financial conditions for macro predictive
purposes: pilot application to USA data. Econometrics 10, 22
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- Gerondelis Foundation Grant, 2021
- SOAS Economics Departmental Prize, 2017
- George and Victoria Karelia Foundation Scholarship, 2016
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