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Yanis Varoufakis: Another Now

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Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No billionaires. Imagine if Occupy and Extinction Rebellion actually won. In Another Now, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis shows us what such a world would look like. Far from being a fantasy, he describes how it could have come about - and might yet. But would we really want it? Varoufakis's boundary-breaking book confounds expectations of what the good society would look like and reveals the uncomfortable truth about our desire for a better world. Chaired by Sara Hill, Programmer at Theatre Deli and Co founder of Opus Independents

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Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No billionaires. Imagine if Occupy and Extinction Rebellion actually won.



In Another Now, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis shows us what such a world would look like. Far from being a fantasy, he describes how it could have come about - and might yet. But would we really want it? Varoufakis's boundary-breaking book confounds expectations of what the good society would look like and reveals the uncomfortable truth about our desire for a better world.



Chaired by Sara Hill, Programmer at Theatre Deli and Co founder of Opus Independents
Yanis Varoufakis
An accidental economist Let me begin with a confession: I am a Professor of Economics who has never really trained as an economist. But let’s take things one at a time.

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