Professor Dimitrios Sotiropoulos
Associate Dean Research And Innovation
The Open University Business School
dimitris.sotiropoulos@open.ac.uk
Biography
Professional biography
I am currently the Associate Dean for Research, Enterprise, and Scholarship and Professor in Finance and Financial History at the Faculty of Business and Law of the Open University in the UK. My previous roles include leading the REF2021 submission for the Open University Business School.
Research interests
My research intersects political economy, economic/financial history, and the history of economic/financial ideas. I have been contributing to the understanding of finance as a social process, advancing debates about the financialization of contemporary societies. I believe that it is not possible to grasp the nature of capitalist societies without having a long-term historical perspective. The main insights of my work draw upon critical political economy and the French radical philosophical tradition of the 1960s and 1970s.
You can find detailed information about my research in this link.
Teaching interests
During my time at the OU, I have made substantial contributions to teaching and learning through the development, delivery, and improvement of a wide range of modules, including Introduction to Corporate Finance, Research Methods for Finance, and Management Accounting and International Finance. In the past I have led undergraduate and postgraduate modules in Financial Risk Management, Financial Econometrics, International Political Economy, Political Economy of Fiannce, and History of Economic Thought.
Publications
Book
A Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crisis: Demystifying Finance (2013)
Ιμπεριαλισμός, χρηματοπιστωτικές αγορές, κρίση [Imperialism, Financial Markets and Crisis] (2011)
Book Chapter
Financialization in Heterodox Economics (2020)
Revisiting the 1992-93 EMS crisis in the context of international political economy (2014)
Digital Artefact
Rebalancing the Euro Area: The Costs of Internal Devaluation (2012)
Journal Article
UK investment trusts and the Baring crisis (2025)
Risk taking in the context of financial advice: does gender interaction matter? (2023)
U.K. investment trust valuation and investor behavior, 1880-1929 (2022)
How gender, marital status, and gender norms affect savings goals (2022)
The rise of professional asset management: The UK investment trust network before World War I (2021)
UK investment trust portfolio strategies before the First World War (2020)
Individual investors and local bias in the UK: 1870-1935 (2017)
The Rise of the Small Investor in the US and the UK, 1895 to 1970 (2017)
Putting all their eggs in one basket? Portfolio diversification 1870 to 1902 (2016)
Hilferding on derivatives (2015)
Financialization and Marx: some reflections on Bryan’s, Martin’s and Rafferty’s argumentation (2014)
Europe in Crisis: Introduction (2014)
Rebalancing the Euro area: the costs of internal devaluation (2014)
Eurozone: die Krise als Chance für die kapitalistische Offensive (2013)
Watching the crisis of eurozone from the European ‘periphery:’ causes and developments (2013)
Kalecki’s dilemma: towards a Marxian interpretation of neoliberal financialization (2011)
Crisis of Greece or crisis of the euro? A view from the European ‘periphery’ (2010)
Marxsche Theorie und Imperialimus (2010)
Why did scarcity triumph over technology in Ricardo’s thinking? (2010)
On the character of the current economic crisis (2009)
Why John Stuart Mill should not be enlisted among neoclassical economists (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Working Paper
Performativity and Financial Markets: Option Pricing in the Late 19th Century (2014)
