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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

Visionary realism: A green future beyond capitalism – Yanis Varoufakis, Ann Pettifor & Noam Chomsky

"There is no alternative", "it's the end of history" in the shadow of the 2008 crash, the environmental crisis and ongoing COVID19 pandemic, never has the hubris of these words been more striking. Nevertheless if we are in fact at the end of an era, what comes next? Join us in uncovering the exciting possibilities that the future can hold with public intellectual Noam Chomsky and economists Ann Pettifor and Yanis Varoufakis. SUBSCRIBE --------------------- DiEM25:...

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Yanis Varoufakis on Hypatia of Alexandria

The Greek politician and economist Yanis Varoufakis takes us back to ancient Alexandria and the life of the first woman to make her name as a mathematician. But Hypatia is best known now for being brutally murdered. Yanis Varoufakis makes the case for her as a philosopher and mathematician, and explores how her story has been interpreted and misinterpreted in the centuries after her death. He's joined by the writer and broadcaster, Professor Edith Hall. Presented by Matthew Parris and...

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The Downtown Writers Jam Mini Episode 36: Yanis Varoufakis

Renowned economist, politician, and author Yanis Varoufakis stopped by the Bunker to talk about his latest book, Another Now, which is an alternate history in which our world developed into a post-capitalist world after the economic crash in 2008. Yanis shared the story of how he was politicized early after the Greek civil war and his father's imprisonment, and how that helped shape his economic vision that led him to become an accidental politician (he led the bailout talks between Greece...

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Yanis Varoufakis on Democratic Ownership

Yanis on democratic ownership and non-tradable shares, gets involved with the economic democracy tradition. There is a rich intellectual history behind the idea that economy is the extension of the political life and that the right to democratically self-govern is inalienable for workers in the same way as for citizens of a democratic state. Rober A. Dahl is probably the most famous political scientists writing on the need of democratic economy. In a similar vain, some have convincingly...

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Yanis Varoufakis: US new cold war on China is a clear and present threat to humanity

Yanis Varoufakis, former Finance Minister of Greece and Council Member of the Progressive International, spoke at ‘Europe against the cold war – China is not our enemy’ on Saturday 23 October 2021. The full event stream can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDpuDpj2I-8 Please go to https://www.nocoldwar.org to sign up to the campaign's statement and newsletter.

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