Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

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...

Support our Vision by becoming a regular donor: via Betterplace: https://goo.gl/i87u9Y PayPal Donation: [email protected] Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acTVism Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/N9zWHp In this video Yanis Varoufakis addresses diverse questions that acTVism Munich received from the public. Topics include the meaning of fiscal waterboarding, impacts of activism & social movements on policy, U.S. militarization, Bernie Sanders & the effects of...

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Η πολιτική κρίση στην Ιταλία ήταν αναπόφευκτη συνέπεια της αρχιτεκτονικής της ευρωζώνης και της αποτελμάτωσης που αυτή προκάλεσε. Ο μέσος Ιταλός είναι σήμερα φτωχότερος απ’ ό,τι είκοσι χρόνια πριν, ενώ την τελευταία δεκαετία η διαφορά στο κατά κεφαλήν εισόδημα για τον μέσο Ιταλό από τον μέσο Γερμανό εκτοξεύτηκε από 12% σε 32%. Παράλληλα, για πρώτη φορά από τον 19ο αιώνα, τον μέσο Ιταλό ξεπέρασε σε κατά κεφαλήν...

Vanity Fair’s interviewed me on the new Italian government (see here). The complete, original Q&A follows below: So, Italy has finally a government. New Premier is Giuseppe Conte, a technician who was never elected. Do you think this is acceptable?  The new government has the consent of the majority of parliament. So, it is legitimate. My regret is that the Left has failed to garner enough electoral support...

Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano interviewed me (see here) regarding the latest developments in Italy, Europe and Greece. The original Q&A (in English) follows: Greece is about to exit from the notorious memorandum, the austerity plan signed with the troika. Public finance has improved at a high price for the population as we all know. I fear you have been misinformed. The only thing that runs out this year...

[embedded content] Yanis Varoufakis discusses his books, Adults in the Room and Talking to my Daughter About the Economy, at Politics and Prose on 10th May 2018 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...

Brexit rode to victory on the coat-tails of a type of discontent whose power sprang from its insuperable reluctance to specify its nature. Seemingly focused on a foreign power centre that British voters saw (with some justification) as the usurper of their democratic rights, its real focal point was nebulous and imprecise enough to encompass a potent mix of grievances. The unifying force behind the variety of...

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.