Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

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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...

This video is an extract from an hour-long 13 January 2017 interview by Dave Rubin titled "Yanis Varoufakis and Dave Rubin Talk Greece's Financial Crisis". LINK: https://youtu.be/8DP_v8f8ihs Wikipedia bio mashup: Born in Athens in 1961, Phd in economics from England, taught at University of Sydney, escaped back to Greece due to the conservative turn in Australia in 2000, author of a dozen books, and formed MeRA 25 a new political party in Greece in March 2018 with a stated aim of freeing...

Italy should be doing well. Unlike Britain, it exports considerably more to the rest of the world than it imports, while its government spends less(excluding interest payments) than the taxes it receives. And yet Italy is stagnating, its population in a state of revolt following two lost decades. While it is true that Italy is in serious need of reforms, those who blame the stagnation on domestic inefficiencies...

Corriere Della Sera, the Italian daily, published today an interview that I gave to Aldo Cazzullo. For the published version (in Italian of course), you can visit the paper’s site here. However, the published text is a heavily reduced version of the exchange between Mr Cazzullo and myself. For those interested in the full exchange, see below. (Nb. the exchange took place in English) Dear Professor let us start...

"We live in an interesting time where the past is no longer a good predictor of the present and future." Speaking on the state of the Eurozone, Yanis Varoufakis, Former Minister of Finance of Greece and Professor of Economics, warns us of the possible ways that an Europe under pressure could go. For more on private equity and investments visit: https://goo.gl/9nEbXA

JOHANNESBURG – One of the most common mistakes European leaders make in interpreting US President Donald Trump’s hostility toward America’s traditional allies, or the alacrity of his administration’s efforts to blow up the international order, is to assume that all of this is unprecedented. Nothing could be further from the truth. To continue reading for free click here...

Rome, July 24, 2015To Yanis Varoufakis and Dominique Strauss-Khan Dear Yanis, dear Dominique, There is a place on earth that represents Europe’s very roots: Greece. Let us begin there. Athens, April 28, 1955. Albert Camus’ conference on “The future of Europe”.[1] On this occasion, participants agreed that the structural characteristics of European civilization are essentially two: the dignity of the individual; a...

Much of the world was introduced to Yanis Varoufakis in early 2015, when, as Greece’s bold new finance minister (he rode a Yamaha to work and tabloids touted his sex appeal), he led negotiations with the European Union, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund to restructure the country’s crushing load of government debt. To many, he was a leftist hero standing up to the heartless eurocrats...