Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

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Unterstützen Sie uns mit einem Dauerauftrag, damit wir mehr solcher Projekte für Sie übersetzen können: https://goo.gl/uc1Zxo In diesem Video stellen wir unsere bisherigen Übersetzungen von Interviews und Veranstaltungen zusammen, an denen Noam Chomsky und Yanis Varoufakis teilnahmen. Untersucht werden unter anderem die Ideologie des Neoliberalismus, die Wirtschaftstheorie und das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen.  Für die vollständige Abschrift: 1. Teil - Chomsky & Varoufakis:...

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[embedded content] As an economist, Labour’s 2019 Manifesto strikes me as a sensible, moderate and well-targeted program in view of Britain’s needs and capacities. Independently of what one thinks of Corbyn and McDonnell (Nb. my friendship and comradeship with both is well known), most people agree that: Exceptional investment in the green transition and technologies, possibly of a level not...

[embedded content] On 8th November, at the invitation of Professor Antara Haldar of Cambridge University, I presented this talk in the context of a fascinating group of academics who gathered in the Cambridge Union’s upstairs seminar room to revive Keynes’ original idea of the Cambridge Circus – a radical circle of economists seeking the kind of economics that can be a force for good....

Yanis Varoufakis has been adamant that he is not a politician. He might be an economist, though his conversation with Margaret Levi – a Stanford political scientist – at the Cambridge Union last Thursday evening on 7th November 2019 smashed the academic boundary walls of economics in style. His critical principles come from his characteristic cool iconoclasm – he has ‘zero respect for economists’ – but this is a...

"We have to stop paniking about ideology. And we should put laws in effect to stop discrimination and hate speech", concluded Kishwer Falkner while Yanis Varoufakis emphasized that "a populist offers everything to intensify division. Thatcher was not promising all things to all people, but Trump does the contrary." https://twitter.com/ubscenter/status/1193920024559464454?s=20 https://www.ubscenter.uzh.ch/en/news_events/events/2019-11-11_social_and_economic_origins_of_populism.html Kishwer...

REVIEW: Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems, by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo A recent YouGov survey confirmed that economists are the least trusted professionals in the UK today. Brexit is only the latest contributor to the public’s understandable rejection of a profession that has either failed spectacularly to raise the alarm over impending crises or have provided...

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