Dr. Pavlos P. Stamatiou is an Assistant Professor of Sectoral Economics at the Department of Economic Sciences of the International Hellenic University (IHU), Greece. He received a PhD in Economics from the University of Macedonia (UOM), Greece. He holds an MSc (with scholarship, distinctions & prize money) in Business Computing (with Economics), as well as a BSc in Applied Informatics from the same university (UOM). His main academic and research interests focus on foreign direct investments and industrial policy, the economics of industrial organization, applied economic policy, as well as energy & environmental economics. His research work includes papers in international peer-reviewed scientific journals, refereed conference proceedings and book chapters in collective volumes. In addition, Pavlos serves as an editorial board member and reviewer in several international journals. Finally, he presents actively his research at various global conferences.

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The First Step

The young poet Evmenis
complained one day to Theocritus:
"I've been writing for two years now
and I've composed only one idyll.
It's my single completed work.
I see, sadly, that the ladder
of Poetry is tall, extremely tall;
and from this first step I'm standing on now
I'll never climb any higher."
Theocritus retorted: "Words like that
are improper, blasphemous.
Just to be on the first step
should make you happy and proud.
To have reached this point is no small achievement:
what you've done already is a wonderful thing.
Even this first step
is a long way above the ordinary world.
To stand on this step
you must be in your own right
a member of the city of ideas.
And it's a hard, unusual thing
to be enrolled as a citizen of that city.
Its councils are full of Legislators
no charlatan can fool.
To have reached this point is no small achievement:
what you've done already is a wonderful thing."

Constantine P. Cavafy (1899)