Faculty

Email Address

constantine.vassiliou@mail.utoronto.ca

Education

  • B.A., Mount Allison University
  • M.A., University of Toronto
  • Ph.D. in progress, University of Toronto

Constantine Vassiliou

Course Instructor

Biography

Constantine’s research responds to our most pressing political challenges in the face of financial innovation. It primarily points to a perennial problem in political economy that continues to the present-day unresolved: how to balance commercial considerations with the public interest? He considers this question through the lenses of French and Scottish Enlightenment-era political philosophers who met similar challenges during capitalism’s nascent stages. His dissertation, Montesquieu’s Moderation: Financial Innovation and Public Responsibility in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, considers Montesquieu’s conception of political moderation in the context of the Financial Revolutions of eighteenth-century Europe.