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Xenophon Zolotas Prof. Xenophon Zolotas is a well-known Greek
economist. The speeches that follows were given to a foreign audience, at the
closing session of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development,
on September 26, 1957 and on October 2, 1959. Prof. Zolotas held the positions
of the Governor of the bank of Greece and the Governor of the Funds for Greece,
at that time. Mr Xenophon Zolotas Xenophon Zolotas delivered the following speech
in English, using exclusively Greek words Harvard University, 1954 Kyrie, It is Zeus' anathema on our epoch for
the dynamism of our economies and the herecy of our economic methods and
policies that we should agonize between the Scylla of nomismatic plethora and
the Charybdis of economic anaemia. It is not my idiosyncracy to be ironic or
sarcastic but my diagnosis should be that politicians are rather
cryptoplethorists. Although the emphatically stigmatize
nomismatic 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 antieconomic. In our epoch characterised by
monopolies, oligopolies, 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. Nomismatic symmetry should not
antagonize economic acme. 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 barometer are halcyonic. The history of our didymous
organisations in this sphere has been didactic and theri gnostic practices will
always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethical economies. The
genesis of the programmed organisation will dynamize these policies. I
sympathise, therefore, with the apostles and the hierarchy of our organisations
in their zeal to programme orthodox economic and numismatic policies, although
I have some logomachy with them. I apologize for having tyranized 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. Mr. Xenophon Zolotas
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