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Yanis Varoufakis –The truth about political economy can never lie in the equations

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"This is my criticism ... of a lot of Marxism, for instance, and I speak as a Marxist. The way in which dialectics has been lost in sterile discussions about the labor theory of value. [...] I am a mathematician by training, I think mathematics is essential, but the truth about political economy can never lie in the equations." From: https://youtu.be/FvS46oY72ws

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"This is my criticism ... of a lot of Marxism, for instance, and I speak as a Marxist. The way in which dialectics has been lost in sterile discussions about the labor theory of value. [...] I am a mathematician by training, I think mathematics is essential, but the truth about political economy can never lie in the equations."



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https://youtu.be/FvS46oY72ws
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.

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