Yanis Varoufakis

About

Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and co-founder of the DiEM25 movement for democracy, which he was re-elected to the Greek parliament to represent in 2019. A former Finance Minister of Greece, he is the author of a memoir, Adults in the Room, and a history, And the Weak Suffer What They Must?, which reveal and explain the catastrophic mishandling of Europe since the financial crisis. Both were number one bestsellers. His latest bestseller is Talking To My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism.

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The Interrobang: A Festival of Questions

Why marry capitalism with democracy? Mary Kostakidis and Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis, Mary Kostakidis

28 Nov

Yanis Varoufakis: Debt, Disobedience and Democracy Today

Yanis Varoufakis, Nassim Khadem

5 Mar

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