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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

Yanis Varoufakis The Future of Capitalism: The New School

Sponsored by the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (http://www.economicpolicyresearch.org) at The New School for Social Research (http://www.newschool.edu/nssr), Yanis Varoufakis will deliver SCEPA's annual Robert Heilbroner Memorial Lecture, "The Future of Capitalism." We all know Varoufakis as the former Greek Finance Minister and media sensation who stood up to Europe in the fight against austerity. His lecture will discuss themes from his new book, "And The...

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Yanis Varoufakis has EU Stockholm syndrome – Against the EU and DiEM25

Hi comrades - this is sort of an annoyed half response to a fawning tl;dr news video on Yanis Varoufakis' latest malarkey, partly just me remembering this guy exists and finding out that he's even more trash then my memory of him. Sources and links Background on the Greek Debt Crisis and YV’s time in government https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN07114/SN07114.pdf Background on Greek Euroscepticism, the debt crisis ect....

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Varoufakis smashes EU ‘immaturity’ and urges Remainers to blast bloc’s migration plot

Varoufakis decries EU 'immaturity' and urges Remainers to blast bloc's migration plot YANIS VAROUFAKIS urges Remainers to admit the EU is failing when it comes to its migration policy, leaving Brussels "spoiled". The former Greek finance minister attacked the bloc on Twitter when Greece decided to widen its border wall to prevent Afghans from trying to reach Europe. He raged: "The tears of the EU (crocodiles) for the victims of the Taliban originate from its Greek border, by...

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