Yannis Milios

John Milios ( ; born 1952) is a Greek social scientist and Marxian economics scholar. He is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy and the History of Economic Thought at the National Technical University of Athens. An author of several scholarly books, Milios is also director of the quarterly journal of economic theory Theseis.

He was chief economic adviser of the Greek leftist party SYRIZA until March 2015. as the son of a lawyer and a dentist.

Political career Since at least 2012 until March 2015 he was the chief economic adviser to Syriza. Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras leads a coalition government (First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras) since the election on 25 January 2015.

Economic theory Regarding the Marxian concept of value-form, Milios argues for a monetary theory of value, where "Money is the necessary form of appearance of value (and of capital) in the sense that prices constitute the only form of appearance of the value of commodities."

Milios has authored more than two hundred papers published in refereed journals (in Greek, English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Turkish) and has authored or co-authored more than ten scholarly books on Marxian economics.

Main publications in English (with. D. Dimoulis; G. Economakis): Karl Marx and the Classics. An Essay on Value, Crises and the Capitalist Mode of Production Ashgate, 2002. new edition 2018 (with D.P. Sotiropoulos): Rethinking Imperialism. A Study of Capitalist Rule. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009. (with D.P. Sotiropoulos & S. Lapatsioras): A Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism and its Crisis. Demystifying Finance. Routledge, 2013 + 2015 "The Origins of Capitalism as a Social System. The Prevalence of an Aleatory Encounter". Routledge, 2018