Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

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Sir, One often hears that people on the left of the political spectrum tend to be more intelligent, more articulate, better read and generally more fun to be with. Every so often, one sees a study in some psychology journal, trying to prove this hypothesis in a scientific manner. Virtually all these studies are deeply flawed as they invariably fail to account for immeasurable and innumerable variables. And then one comes across the article “Out of office” on the front page...

Der griechische Ex-Finanzminister sagt, der Geist Bruno Kreiskys sei verloren gegangen. 31.08.2016, 14:01 Der frühere griechische Finanzminister Gianis Varoufakis hat in Alpbach bei einem Pressegespräch auch zur österreichischen Innenpolitik Stellung genommen. Er kritisierte dabei die von den Sozialdemokraten übernommenen Inhalte rechter Politiker, wie die Errichtung neuer Grenzen. Damit sei das Ende der Sozialdemokratie, wie sie von Bruno Kreisky inspiriert worden sei, erreicht...

Yanis Varoufakis, professor of Economics, former finance minister of Greece and cofounder of Diem25 debates Clemens Fuest, president of IFO (Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung). Discussion includes the political - economic problems of modern Europe, the Greek crisis and its handling by the EU, thoughts on the market economy and universal basic income. Discussion took place in European Forum Alpbach, 30 August 2016.

In October 2015, I had the opportunity to debate, in Munich, Professor Hans Werner Sinn on the European Monetary Union and, more broadly, Europe’s economy . On 30 August 2016, at the Alpbach European Forum, I debated Professor Sinn’s successor as President of IFO, Professor Clemens Fuest. [Click here, or the image above, for video of the two keynotes and the debate.] This Alpbach Keynote Debate was organised along the lines of the following proposition/question “The market economy is the...

Yanis Varoufakis und sein neues Buch: "Das Euro Paradox" ttt 28.08.2016 Quelle: Das Erste Brillanter Theoretiker, radikaler Träumer, berechnender Zocker, Wirtschaftsmathematiker, Motoradfahrer: In seinem neuen Buch tritt Griechenlands Ex-Finanzminister Yanis Varoufakis für eine Rettung Europas ein. ABO NICHT VERGESSEN weitere interessante Links: Konsumterror vs Konsumverzicht https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP4FEK7ufBc Konsumterror vs Konsumverzicht Nico Paech & Co...

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ATHENS – Objects of desire come at a cost. Only bad things, like toxic waste, have a negative price, the equivalent of a fee payable to anyone willing to make them disappear. Does this mean that negative interest rates embody a new perspective on money – that it has gone “bad”? [To read on, click here]

Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek Finance Minister and Noam Chomsky, political philosopher, discuss the lack of democracy in the European Union. See the full video at: bit.ly/2bahbfE Find out about Varoufakis' campaign to restore democracy to Europe at: https://diem25.org .