Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

Frmr Greece finance minister Yanis Varoufakis explains Paul Volcker's report to Kissinger; "Paul Volcker as a young man worked for Henry Kissinger before Kissinger became the foreign minister, Secretary of State for the United States (when he was still National Security Advisor0. Volcker was working for him. Kissinger asked Volcker, who was a young banker, to come up with an idea as to how could American hegemony be expanded when the deficit is increasing. Volcker wrote a three page...

Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek academic, economist and politician who served as the Greek Minister of Finance in the first half of 2015. He's currently professor of economics at the University of Athens. Varoufakis recently wrote a book, just translated into English, called “Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, or How Capitalism Works and How it Fails.” He sat with WGBH News Editor Aaron Schacter to talk about the economy, the disenfranchised people in Europe and a new political party he...

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Yanis Varoufakis (Cofounder of the grassrouts movement DiEM25), Greek economist, academic and politician, served as the Greek Minister of Finance (January to July 2015). Varoufakis taught economics and econometrics at the University of Essex and the University of East Anglia, and also taught at the University of Cambridge (1982 and 1988). He did not wish to return to Greece for fear of conscription, and so accepted an offer to lecture at the University of Sydney, where he remained until...

"Money is a political construct, a construct of community, a construct of a society, that must be political. And if we do not control this, by definition, political force, because money is a force—it makes the world go round, as we know—if this political force it not controlled democratically, then we do not live in a democracy." Yanis Varoufakis, the former Minister of Finance for Greece at the height of Europe's debt crisis, was at the Appel Salon as part of the TPL's #OnCivilSociety...

How should parents talk to their children about the economy: how it operates, where it came from, how it benefits some while impoverishing others, how democracy can improve the Economy. Yanis Varoufakis as Finance Minister of Greece negotiated with the decision makers of the European Union for a workable solution to Greek's debt crisis. He was replaced before the decision were finalized. The debt crisis is now worse and Greece is in a deep depression. Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before...

"Elections cannot be allowed to change the economic policy of any country" opposition says to Varoufakis. This, according to Varoufakis, is the greatest gift to communist party of China because they believe this too. Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist, academic and politician, who served as the Greek Minister of Finance from January to July 2015, when he resigned. Whereas Noam Chomsky, described as "the father of modern linguistics", is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive...

Er galt als der große Euro-Schreck während seiner Amtszeit als griechischer Finanzminister! Doch waren die Vorwürfe von Politikern und Medien gegen Yanis Varoufakis wirklich gerechtfertigt? Im Interview mit der Mission Money vertritt Varoufakis spannende Positionen. Deutschland dürfe nicht für Pleite-Staaten haften, fordert er. Und außerdem werde Deutschland aus dem Euro austreten, wenn ein ganz bestimmtes Szenario eintritt....außerdem im Gepäck des Griechen: Zahlreiche Ideen, wie man die...

Varoufakis on Populism Link for the full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H38tZhPying