Costas Lapavitsas is Professor of Economics at SOAS. He has published widely on the Political Economy of Money and Finance and his research during the last few years has focused on the financialisation of capitalism. In January 2015 he was elected as a member of the Greek Parliament. His most recent books include Capitalism in the Ottoman Balkans, with P. Cakiroglu, 2019, The Left Case Against the EU, 2018, and Profiting Without Producing, 2013.

The EReNSEP Writing Collective: Nicol¿s Aguila, Universit¿t Witten/Herdecke; Carla Coburger, University of Bayreuth, Germany; Pablo Cotarelo; Sergi Cutillas, University of Barcelona; Juan J. Duque, SOAS; Matteo Giordano, SOAS; Spyros Marchetos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Thanos Moraitis, UMass Amherst; Marie Hyllested; Yuning Shi, SOAS; Aylin Soydan, Istanbul Okan University.