Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

In 2018, the good people behind the Edinburgh Festival kindly invited me to host a series of discussions under the title KILLING DEMOCRACY? My remit was: Further to explore the question of whether the current form of financialised capitalism is devouring democracy, reflecting on my work with the Democracy in Europe Movement (DiEM25). In a series of four events I tried to explore the ways in which the demos can be...

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In this immersive interview with Nomiki Konst of the The Young Turks Politics #TYTPolitics, former Greek Finance Minister and Professor of Political Economy, Yanis Varoufakis talks about the genesis of his latest book "Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism". Click here to listen to the audiobook version of this thought-provoking, original work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqQMT4Uuh0s&t=1303s

SUBSCRIBE for more speakers ► http://is.gd/OxfordUnion Oxford Union on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theoxfordunion Oxford Union on Twitter: @OxfordUnion Website: http://www.oxford-union.org/ Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, author, and politician who served as the Greek Minister of Finance in 2015. Since then, Varoufakis has launched the pan-European ‘Democracy in Europe Movement 2025’. In this talk, he will argue ‘the Euro has never been more problematic’. ABOUT THE OXFORD UNION...

The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford University, kindly invited me to deliver the 2019 Taylor Lecture on 12th February 2019. In my book was addressed to my daughter regarding the economy I tried to offer her a simple, though not simplistic, account on how capitalism works and how it fails. Critics, correctly, pointed out that the book’s criticisms of capitalism (couched in parables borrowed from...