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Xenophon
Zolotas {Ksenofon Zolotas ~
Ξενοφών Ζολώτας} (1904-2004). Eminent Greek economist, who served as an
interim non-party Prime Minister of Greece. Born in Athens [Place Names] in 1904, Zolotas studied
economics at the University of Athens 
, and later studied in Leipzig and Paris.
In
1928 he became Professor of Economics at Athens University, a post he held until 1968,
when he resigned in protest at the military regime which had come to power in 1967. 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
in 1981.
Zolotas
was governor 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.
When the elections of November 1989 failed to give a majority to either the PA.SO.K {ΠΑνελλήνιο ΣΟσιαλιστικό Κίνημα ~ Pan-Hellenic Socialist Party} party of Andreas Papandreou {Ανδρέας Παπανδρέου} or the New Democracy {Nea Dimokratia ~ Νέα Δημοκρατία} party of Constantine Mitsotakis {Konstandinos Mitsotakis ~ Κωνσταντίνος Μητσοτάκης}, Zolotas, then aged 85, agreed to become Prime Minister at head of a non-party administration until fresh elections could be held. He resigned when the election of April 1990 gave Mitsotakis a narrow majority.
Xenophon Zolotas (1904-2004)
06-15-2004
Board of Governors, Washington D.C.
September 26th, 1957
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 nomismatic 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
eucharistiria to you Kyrie, to the eugenic and generous American Ethnos and to the
organizations and protagonists of the Amphictyony and the gastronomic symposia.
Board of Governors, Washington D.C.
October 2nd, 1959
Kyrie,
It is Zeus’ anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the heresey of
our economic methods and policies that we should agonize between the Scylla of numismatic
plethora and the Charybdis of economic anemia. It is not my idiosyncrasy to the 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 should be based more on economic and less political
criteria. Our gnomon has to be a metron between economic, strategic and philanthropic
scopes. Political magic has always been antieconomic. In an epoch chararacterized by
monopolies, oligopolies, monopolies, oligopolies, monopsonies, monopolistic antagonism and
polymorfous 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. 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 and economic and numismatic policies panethnically. The history of our didimous
organizations in this sphere has been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be
a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economies. The genesis of the
organization will dynamize these policies. Therfore, I sympathize although not without
criticism on one or two themes, with the apostles and the hierarchy of our organizations
in their zeal to program orthodox economic and numismatic policies.
Le Dedale Synchrone Du Cosmos Politique
Kyrie,
Sans apostropher ma rhetorique dans l’ emphase et la plethore, j’ analyserai
elliptiquement, sans nul gallicisme, le dedale synchrone du cosmos politique caracterise
par des syndromes de crise paralysant l’ organisation systematique de notre economie.
Nous sommes periodiquement sceptiques et neurastheniques devant ces paroxysmes
periphrasiques, cette boulimie des demagogues, ces hyperboles, ces paradoxes hypocrites et
cyniques qui symbolisent une democratie anachronique et chaotique. Les phenomenes
fantastiques qu’on nous prophetise pour l’ epoque astronomique detroneront les
programmes rachitiques, hybrides et sporadiques de notre cycle atomique. Seule une panacee
authentique et draconienne metamorphosera cette agonie prodrome de l’ apocalypse et une
genese homologue du Phenix. Les economistes technocrates seront les strateges d’ un
theatre polemique et dynamique et non les proselytes du marasme. Autochtones helleniques,
dans une apologie cathartique, psalmodions les theoremes de la democratie thesaurisante et
heroique, soyons allergiques aux parasites allogenes dont les sophismes trop hyalins n’
ont qu’une pseudodialectique. En epilogue a ces agapes, mon amphore a l’ apogee, je
prophetise toute euphorie et apotheose a Monsieur Giscard d’ Estaing, prototype
enthousiasmant de la neo-orthodoxie economique et symbole de la palingenesie de son ethnie
gallique.
11-21-2003