Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

Yanis tries to explain the reasons behind Trump's trade war with China and its consequences for the US. Yanis thinks we shouldn't demonize Trump for the trade wars. Link of the full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H38tZhPying

Can Europe and the Eurozone continue as before or should Germany pay for Greece, Italy and others? June 11, 2018. In this presentation at the IFO institute in Munich, DiEM25 co-founder Yanis Varoufakis sets out to prove that neither is possible. He argues that in order to save the ideal of Europe and prevent a further rise of the extreme right, we have to make one of two stark choices: either engage in a controlled disintegration of the Euro or simulate a federation in line with the...

Yanis Varoufakis, economist, academic and former Greek Minister of Finance, in conversation with Will Milberg, dean of The New School for Social Research, discussing Bitcoin and the concept of Political Money. Bonus material from Yanis Varoufakis on Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: https://youtu.be/UwWRSIXbpIQ See more interviews and highlight content with the most prominent speakers appearing at The New School's acclaimed public programming offerings, at:...

How should parents talk to their children about the economy: how it operates, where it came from, how it benefits some while impoverishing others? Former Finance Minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of nations, assemblies of experts, and countless students around the world—and now he joins us to add Town Hall audiences to that list as he joins us to share wisdom from his book Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism. Varoufakis takes...

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Varoufakis’ career has spanned academia, public service, and the private sector. After three decades in academia, he was elected to the Hellenic Parliament in 2015 as a member of the Syriza Party and became Minister of Finance in Alexis Tsipras’ government. He currently serves as professor of economics at the University of Athens and as a consultant for the Valve Corporation.

Yanis Varoufakis discusses his books, " Adults in the Room" and "Talking to my Daughter About the Economy", at Politics and Prose on 5/10/18. In his eye-opening memoir, Adults in the Room, Varoufakis, Greece’s former Finance Minister, recounts his frustrating struggle to resolve Greece’s debt crisis without resorting to austerity measures. His book give us a valuable inside look at discussions with officials of the European Union and International Monetary Fund as well as with policy makers...