Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

“Britain is a great democracy imperilled by the delusion that it is a great power. The EU is a great power imperilled by the delusion that it is a great democracy. To stabilise our common neighbourhood, in the East, the Middle-East and Africa, both Europe and the UK must overcome their delusions and work toward simulating a federation.” [embedded content]...

[embedded content] [embedded content] David Dimbleby presents topical debate from Scarborough, with a panel including Conservative MP and prisons minister Sam Gyimah, Labour’s Chuka Umunna, Ukip’s new leader Henry Bolton, deputy editor of The Sunday Times, Sarah Baxter and the economist and Yanis Varoufakis, DiEM25 co-founder & former finance minister of Greece....

[embedded content] Yanis Varoufakis, co-founder of DiEM25 , former Minister of Finance for Greece and high profile economist, academic and writer, addressed The Oxford Guild  on Tuesday 28th November in the Said Business School Amphitheatre. He discussed the state of the European Union, of the United Kingdom, the political landscape globally and the political/economic/social agenda of DiEM25...

Yanis Varoufakis on the rumoured Brexit deal and the EU

Nov.29 -- Former Greece Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis discusses Brexit negotiations, his recommendations around Brexit, the Irish border issue, Emmanuel Macron's policies for France, EU common budget and his outlook for Greece. He speaks on "Bloomberg Markets: European Open."

Yanis Varoufakis negotiated for Greece during the debt crisis in 2015.

How far should economists engage in day-to-day politics? “Researchers have an obligation to society to take positions on questions on which they have acquired professional competence,” says French economist Jean Tirole[1]. But how does an academic do this when media are not, in Tirole’s words, his ‘natural habitat’? Yanis Varoufakis, in his recent incarnation as visiting professor at the University of Texas,...

Yanis Varoufakis, co-founder of DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement), former Minister of Finance for Greece and high profile economist, academic and writer, is speaking to The Oxford Guild from 7.30pm on Tuesday 28th November (8th wk) in Mansfield College’s Sir Joseph Hotung Auditorium in the newly opened Hands Building. He will be discussing fascinating topical issues including the state of the European Union,...

It is not often that one’s book is reviewed by a sitting finance minister. But these are strange times. On 4th November Ireland’s finance minister Paschal Donohoe took the trouble to review my ‘Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A brief history of capitalism” for The Irish Times. To my utter surprise, he had some exceptionally complimentary things to say about my little book, for which I am – naturally –...