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An accidental economist Let me begin with a confession: I am a Professor of Economics who has never really trained as an economist. But let’s take things one at a time.

Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

Αντιμέτωποι με τη νέα διεθνή ύφεση του 2019 – EφΣυν 12 Ιανουαρίου 2019

Το 2019 δεν θα είναι μόνο εκλογική χρονιά. Θα αποδειχθεί, επί πλέον, η χρονιά που η ύφεση επέστρεψε στη διεθνή οικονομία. Πρόκειται για εκρηκτικό μείγμα για μια χώρα όπως η Ελλάδα, που συμπληρώνει δεκαετία μόνιμης κρίσης, που εισέρχεται σε εκλογικό κύκλο και της οποίας το χρέος θα ήταν μη βιώσιμο ακόμα και χωρίς την επερχόμενη διεθνή ύφεση. Το ελληνικό δημόσιο χρέος πριν από τη νέα διεθνή ύφεση Πριν δούμε τα κακά...

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Mrs Merkel’s Athens visit, her fall from grace and Greece’s demand for war reparations – on BBC Radio 4

[embedded content] Over the past two days, Mrs Merkel was in Athens on a victory lap to celebrate her successful subjugation of the Syriza government and the subsequent extension of the Greeks’ debt bondage. Nevertheless, even this subservient Greek government managed to upset her victory lap by mentioning the… war and the reparations the Greeks will continue to demand for the gigantic loss...

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At the Edinburgh Festival, in conversation with Jeremy Corbyn on reviving socialism, with Maria Alyokhina (Pussy Riot) on despotism, and with Shami Chakrabarti on liberty

In 2018, the good people behind the Edinburgh Festival kindly invited me to host a series of discussions under the title KILLING DEMOCRACY? My remit was: Further to explore the question of whether the current form of financialised capitalism is devouring democracy, reflecting on my work with the Democracy in Europe Movement (DiEM25). In a series of four events I tried to explore the ways in which the demos can be...

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Realistic Utopias versus Dystopic Realities – Oxford University, Taylor Lecture, 12/2/2019

The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford University, kindly invited me to deliver the 2019 Taylor Lecture on 12th February 2019. In my book was addressed to my daughter regarding the economy I tried to offer her a simple, though not simplistic, account on how capitalism works and how it fails. Critics, correctly, pointed out that the book’s criticisms of capitalism (couched in parables borrowed from...

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Talking Brexit, Bernie and Left Internationalism with Yanis Varoufakis – VICE

Varoufakis talks to us about what he’s planning with the veteran US politician, why Jeremy Corbyn has been slow to support his campaigning efforts in Europe, and whether it’s possible for the UK to “remain and reform” inside the EU. VICE: Can you start by telling me about your trip over to the US. What plans do you have in the pipeline with Bernie? Yanis Varoufakis: To begin with, an internationalist progressive...

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Συνέντευξη εφ’ όλης της ύλης, Ευρώπη & Ελλάδα, στο Σπούτνικ

Με μελανά χρώματα περιγράφει το μέλλον της Ευρώπης, ο Γιάνης Βαρουφάκης, κάνοντας λόγο για «στροφή προς τον φασισμό». Για την Ελλάδα εκτιμά ότι βρισκόμαστε σε ένα «τέταρτο μνημόνιο» που είναι «το χειρότερο απ’ όλα», ενώ η κυβέρνηση περιορίζεται να δίνει «χαρτζιλίκια». Ο Σαλβίνι ετοιμάζει τη «μεγάλη κίνηση» που είναι «η έξοδος από το ευρώ», την ώρα που το σχέδιο του Μακρόν «κατέρρευσε» λόγω ενός «κολοσσιαίου...

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On our efforts to unite progressives in Europe and internationally: A Buzzfeed News Long Read

OXFORD, England — A police van smuggled Steve Bannon past protesters in Oxford last month, a stop on a promotional tour for his new project to boost “populist nationalism” across Europe. Bannon’s speech at the Oxford Union, a grand debate hall that has hosted the likes of Albert Einstein and Mother Teresa, made headlines across the continent and led to claims that it was normalizing “white supremacy”...

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