When Greek is the international language-an interesting perspective!

IS IT ALL GREEK TO YOU?

This speech was given by the late PM of Greece and acknowledged economist Xenofon Zolotas sometime in the 50’s in front of a Harvard University audience. You will find interesting the fact that nearly all the terms used have been derived originally from the Greek language and are now used internationally! Unique isn’t it?

Kyrie, it is Zeus’ anathema on our epoch and the heresy of our economic method and policies that we should agonize the Skylla of numismatic plethora and the Charibdis of economic anaemia. It is not my idiosyncracy to be 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 on political criteria. Our gnomon has to be a metron between economic strategic and philanthropic scopes.

In an epoch characterized 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. Numismatic 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 end economic barometer are halcyonic.

The history of our didymous organization on this sphere has been didactic and their Gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphus ethnical economies. The genesis of the programmed organization will dynamize these policies. Therefore, I sympathize, although not without criticism one or two themes with the apostles and the hierarchy of our organs in their zeal to program orthodox economic and numismatic policies. I apologize for having tyrannized 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, the stenographers.

Xenofon Zolotas (1904 – 2004)

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