9/4/2020 · Yanis Varoufakis : capitalism isn’t working. Here’s an alternative In his new book, the economist imagines a future transformed by Covid-19 and.
Strangely, one of the most disturbing aspects of Varoufakis’ stint as a Finance Minister concerns the fact that he is an economist. One thing we now readily assume is that economics is the language of power. This gives academic economists a status somewhat like a.
Autobiography: Let me begin with a confession: I am a Professor of Economics who has never really trained as an economist . While I may have a PhD in Economics , I do not believe I have ever attended more than a few lectures on economics ! But let’s take things one at a time. I was born in Athens back in the mists of 1961.
3/31/2016 · Greece’s former finance minister talks Greece, Europe, the Labour Party and the future of social democracy. YANIS VAROUFAKIS is a Greek economist who served as finance minister in.
2/2/2019 · A maverick leftist sallies into transnational European politics. I N A WARM office in Berlin’s trendy Kreuzberg district, Charlemagne is trying to persuade Yanis Varoufakis that he is a …
On 8th November, at the invitation of Professor Antara Haldar of Cambridge University, I presented this talk in the context of a fascinating group of academics who gathered in the Cambridge Union’s upstairs seminar room to revive Keynes’ original idea of the Cambridge Circus – a radical circle of economists seeking the kind of economics that can be a force for good .
Varoufakis is the first heterodox academic economist , a critic of the dominant neo-classical tradition that holds sway in university departments, to make it into power. His ascent sends a warning shot across the bows of conventional economic thinkers and boosts the “post-crash economics ” movement that complains that traditional economists …
