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Professor Xenophon Zolotas, Governor of the Bank of Greece, delivered the following address before the International Monetary Fund in 1959. It contains mainly words derived from Greek (excepting articles and prepositions). 1

 

Kyrie,

It is Zeus’ anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the heresy of our economic methods and policies that we should agonise between the Scylla of numismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia.

It is not my idiosyncrasy to be ironic or sarcastic but my diagnosis would be that the politicians are rather cryptoplethorists.

Although they emphatically stigmatise numismatic plethora, they energise 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. Political magic has always been antieconomic.

In an epoch characterised by monopolies, oligopolies, monopsonies, 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 hyper-antagonise economic acme.

A greater harmonisation between the practices of the economic and numismatic archons is basic.

Parallel to this, we have to synchronise and harmonise more and more our economic and numismatic policies panethnically.

These scopes are more practicable now, when the prognostics of the political and economic barometer are halcyonic. The history of our didymous organisations in this sphere has been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economies. The genesis of the programmed organisation will dynamize these policies. Therefore, I sympathise, although not without criticism on one or two themes, with the apostles and the hierarchy of our organisations in their zeal to program orthodox economic and numismatic policies.

I apologise for having tyrannised you with my hellenic phraseology.

In my epilogue, I emphasise my eulogy to the philoxenous autochthons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to you, Kyrie, and the stenographers.

 

 

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  1. Διεθνές Νομισματικό Ταμείο και Ελλάδα (International Monetary Fund & Greece)

 

 

 

 

 

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  1. Ο Καθηγητής Ξενοφών Ζολώτας, Διοικητής της Τραπέζης της Ελλάδος, εκφώνησε τον παραπάνω χαιρετισμό ενώπιον του Διεθνούς Νομισματικού Ταμείου το 1959. Περιέχει κυρίως λέξεις προερχόμενες από την ελληνική (εξαιρουμένων των άρθρων και των προθέσεων).
    [Ευχαριστώ τον Τάσο Μάτο που μου το θύμισε].   
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