Thursday , April 17 2025
Home / Video / LTIO#5 Debt as Power (with Yanis Varoufakis, Astra Taylor, Jayati Ghosh and Frank Barat)

LTIO#5 Debt as Power (with Yanis Varoufakis, Astra Taylor, Jayati Ghosh and Frank Barat)

Summary:
Debt is power. Extractive power over people and planet. Class societies ensure that the debts of the extractors are never paid while insisting that the debts of the exploited are sacrosanct. In this episode of LTIO we dissect debt and discuss how to overthrow its hold over the many. With Yanis Varoufakis, Astra Taylor and Jayati Ghosh. Show hosted by Frank Barat. The Debt Collective: https://debtcollective.org/ and their book "Can't pay, won't pay": https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1520-can-t-pay-won-t-pay Astra's new book: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1635-remake-the-world

Topics:
Yanis Varoufakis considers the following as important:

This could be interesting, too:

Robert Vienneau writes Austrian Capital Theory And Triple-Switching In The Corn-Tractor Model

Mike Norman writes The Accursed Tariffs — NeilW

Mike Norman writes IRS has agreed to share migrants’ tax information with ICE

Mike Norman writes Trump’s “Liberation Day”: Another PR Gag, or Global Reorientation Turning Point? — Simplicius

Debt is power. Extractive power over people and planet. Class societies ensure that the debts of the extractors are never paid while insisting that the debts of the exploited are sacrosanct. In this episode of LTIO we dissect debt and discuss how to overthrow its hold over the many.



With Yanis Varoufakis, Astra Taylor and Jayati Ghosh. Show hosted by Frank Barat.



The Debt Collective: https://debtcollective.org/

and their book "Can't pay, won't pay": https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1520-can-t-pay-won-t-pay



Astra's new book: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1635-remake-the-world
Yanis Varoufakis
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.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *