Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

Click here for my Project Syndicate op-ed in which I reply to Bill Gates’ proposal for a tax on robots, counter-proposing the idea first canvassed here of a universal basic dividend from a public share trust fund. See also this commentary in The Guardian.

[embedded content] By AnnMarie Welser and Brian Maguire | EURACTIV.com Greece’s economy suffered a new blow, contracting by 1.2% at the end of 2016, according to revised figures released earlier this week. The figures, published by the Greek statistics agency, Elstat, show it was the worst quarter since the summer of 2015, when the European Central Bank closed the Greek banks. The dramatic...

Here we have gametheory specialist and politician YANNIS VAROUFAKIS in a rhetorical dispute with foorbalgenius ZIDANE. They are in a theoretical and pratical dispute about the sense and nonsense of the rules that ARISTOTLE in his text on Rhetorica had proposed. A dispute that got extra dimensions because YANNIS and ZIDANE are like two twin brothers. or perhaps even each others Doepelganger!

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By ALEKSANDRA ERIKSSON BRUSSELS, 8th March 2017 Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has joined forces with the German left-wing MEP Fabio De Masi in a bid to clarify whether the European Central Bank (ECB) had a legal right to limit the liquidity of Greece’s banks in 2015. The duo told journalists in Brussels on Wednesday (8 March) that they were collecting signatures for a petition to ECB president...

Ex-Finance Minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, on power, populism and the future of the EU. This interview preceded the launch of the Dutch chapter of Diem25 in Paradiso, Amsterdam. Interview by Lorenzo Fränkel Design by Ilia ten Böhmer Music by Lars Burgwal

Click here for The Guardian site. Or… Writing a book should be a life-changing experience for its author. This book was no exception: it was as if, halfway through writing it, the subject matter jumped off the page and demanded a real-life response. I soon found myself in the belly of the beast I had been writing about. I started researching and writing And the Weak Suffer What They Must? in response to a...

Greece’s former finance minister, with German MEP, to hold press conference Wednesday, March 8, to announce filing a vital Freedom of Information request to the ECB. (Click Brussels Press Conference DiEM25 Press Release for pdf version) WHEN: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 ( 10:00 – 10:30 CET ) WHERE: Anna Politkovskaya Room, PHS 0A50 – European Parliament (Brussels) RSVP: [email protected] LIVESTREAM:...

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