Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

Not many authors write a book in nine days, and fewer still are likely to announce it in the prologue. Yanis Varoufakis has no qualms about doing so in this brief history of capitalism, structured around the device of talking to his daughter, Xenia, not long a teenager. It was first published a few years ago, when she was even younger, and has been updated for British readers following a further week’s writing....

“Utterly accessible, deeply humane and startlingly original – a potent democratic tool at the perfect time” Naomi Klein, author of NO IS NOT ENOUGH and THE SHOCK DOCTRINE Yanis Varoufakis, the bestselling author of Adults in the Room, uses personal stories and famous myths to explain what economics is and why it has the power to change our world. Why is there so much inequality? In this intimate and accessible...

With President Xi Jinping’s signature ‘Belt and Road’ initiative gaining momentum, more countries will be negotiating with China for inward investment in infrastructure. Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek Finance Minister, says that his own experience was highly encouraging. Keep up to date with PS films by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/project-syndicate ******************************************************************** For more PS, join the conversation...

Lieber Wolfgang, Ich habe deine jüngsten Antworten auf Fragen von Journalisten sehr genau unter die Lupe genommen. Diese bezogen sich auf mein neuestes Buch “Die ganze Geschichte” und unsere Unterhaltungen im ersten Halbjahr 2015. Ich habe einen Vorschlag für dich. Anstatt vager Aussagen und herabsetzender Bemerkungen möchte ich dich einladen und herausfordern, konkrete Seiten und Absätze in meinem Buch zu...

Think of basic income as a foundation, not a net; a floor on which to stand solidly, and to be able to reach for the sky. Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist and former Minister of Finance Source: https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews/videos/10154253075916200/?permPage=1

Dear Wolfgang, I read carefully and listened your recent statements in response to journalistic questions emanating from my recent book “Adults in the Room” relating to our conversations during the first half of 2015. I have a proposal for you. Instead of vague statements and personal put down lines, I invite you to point out specific pages and paragraphs in my book where I misrepresented something that you told...

Αγαπητέ Βόλφγαγκ, Άκουσα προσεκτικά και διάβασα ακόμα προσεκτικότερα τις πρόσφατες απαντήσεις σου σε δημοσιογραφικά ερωτήματα που προέκυψαν από το πρόσφατο βιβλίο μου «Ανίκητοι Ηττημένοι» αναφορικά με τις μεταξύ μας συνομιλίες το πρώτο εξάμηνο του 2015. Έχω να σου προτείνω το εξής. Αντί για γενικολογίες και προσωπικούς χαρακτηρισμούς σε προ(σ)καλώ να καταδείξεις σε ποιό κεφάλαιο του βιβλίου, σε ποιά σελίδα, σε...

#UkrFinForum17 Keynotes panel Global finances and the world economy: #EU after the potential #Brexit, U.S.A. and China Yanis Varoufakis, former Finance Minister of Greece pointed out that both the #Eurozone and global economy require deeper reforms than currently are underway. He stressed that the modern world is full of uncertainty that cannot be explained. Nobody has an answer for the question: what happened to inflation and cheap money? Varoufakis divides the postwar period into three...

Varoufakis is a Greek economist, academic and politician, who served as the Greek Minister of Finance from January to July 2015. Link to the full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuoc3cZfaNU

Please don't forget to donate today so we can continue to produce independent analysis: https://www.betterplace.org/en/projects/51400-actvism-munich-crowdfunding In this video founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis talks about about the Universal Dividend, it's differences with the Basic Income, how it will be financed and whether it will burden the working class. In addition Varoufakis discusses the role of technology and...