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Yanis Varoufakis: Has capitalism failed us? | On Civil Society | May 18, 2018.

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“Money is a political construct, a construct of community, a construct of a society, that must be political. And if we do not control this, by definition, political force, because money is a force—it makes the world go round, as we know—if this political force it not controlled democratically, then we do not live in ...

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“Money is a political construct, a construct of community, a construct of a society, that must be political. And if we do not control this, by definition, political force, because money is a force—it makes the world go round, as we know—if this political force it not controlled democratically, then we do not live in a democracy.”



Yanis Varoufakis, the former Minister of Finance for Greece at the height of Europe’s debt crisis, was at the Appel Salon as part of the TPL’s #OnCivilSociety series, to talk about his new book “Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism”,



In conversation with Ana Serrano, Chair of the Open Democracy Project.



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Go to tpl.ca/civilsociety to see upcoming events in this series.



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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