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Nikolaos Karagiannis

Nikolaos Karagiannis is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, a Professor of Economics at Winston-Salem State University, North Carolina, an invited visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, England; and the co-editor of American Review of Political Economy. He has published extensively in the areas of economic development, public sector economics, and macroeconomic policy analysis. Professor Karagiannis is particularly interested in developmental state theory and policy, and his research has focused on the applicability of this perspective in different contexts such as in EU countries, the United States, Caribbean small island economies, North African countries, and China. He is the author, co-author and co-editor of twenty two books and has published over 150 papers as refereed journal articles, books chapters and op-ed. His latest books include Europe in Crisis: Problems, Challenges, and Alternative Perspectives (coeditor, 2015), The Modern Caribbean Economy (2 volumes, coeditor, 2016), The Caribbean Economies in an Era of Free Trade (reissued, coeditor, 2017), Caribbean Realities and Endogenous Sustainability (coeditor, 2018), and A Modern Guide to State Intervention: Economic Policies for Growth and Sustainability (coeditor, 2019).

Research Scholar and Professor of Economics at Winston-Salem State University, North Carolina

Publications

Does the United States Need a Comprehensive National Health System? A Discussion of Views, Facts, Challenges, and Potential Benefits

This article will first provide the two main theoretical perspectives related to the U.S. health system: the “market-based” view and the “socially sensitive” view.

Aspects of Developmental Policy Intervention in the United States: The Challenge of the Strategic Approach

This paper seeks to frame a new economic strategy for the United States while taking into account a range of development-related impediments to the country’s recent macroeconomic performance. It is argued here that three important themes need to come to center stage...
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