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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.

Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina with Yanis Varoufakis at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

'To back down an inch is to give up a mile,' says Maria Alyokhina in Riot Days, her account of Pussy Riot’s extraordinary rise to infamy in 2012. Following an iconoclastic balaclava-clad performance in a Moscow cathedral, Alyokhina and two of her collaborators were arrested and sentenced to two years in a prison in the Urals. In this unmissable event filmed live at the 2018 Edinburgh International Book Festival, Yanis Varoufakis discusses with Maria Alyokhina the different varieties of...

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Raw Politics talk show : Yanis Varoufakis contre les nationalistes

Sa tête est connu au sein de l'éxécutif grec. Yanis Varoufakis était le ministre des finances à l'apogée de la crise financière grecque, en 2015. Depuis… LIRE L’ARTICLE : http://fr.euronews.com/2018/09/04/raw-politics-talk-show-yanis-varoufakis-contre-les-nationalistes Aujourd'hui dans l'actualité : les titres en vidéo https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUW2QcKZiU8aUGg4yxCIditg euronews : la chaîne d'information la plus regardée en Europe. Abonnez-vous !...

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The three tribes of austerity: enemies of big government, Germany’s social democrats, and tax-cutting Republicans – op-ed in Project Syndicate

No policy is as self-defeating during recessionary times as the pursuit of a budget surplus for the purpose of containing public debt – austerity, for short. So, as the world approaches the tenth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, it is appropriate to ask why austerity proved so popular with Western political elites following the financial sector’s implosion in 2008. The economic case against...

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Ο μόνος τρόπος να επιβιώσει η χώρα εντός ευρώ είναι να φοβόμαστε το Grexit λιγότερο από την ερημοποίηση της Ελλάδας εντός του ευρώ (αυτό, δηλαδή, που εγγυάται η υποταγή στην τρόικα) – Συνέντευξη στην πρωινή εκπομπή του Έψιλον TV

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Yanis Varoufakis on the Volcker Study Group plan

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...

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