Bøger af Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis, the world-renowned economist and #1 bestselling author, uses personal stories and famous myths to explain what economics is and why it has the power to change our world. In this intimate and accessible book, world famous economist Yanis Varoufakis sets out to answer his daughter Xenia's deceptively simple question.

'One of the greatest political memoirs of all time' (Guardian) -- The Sunday Times Number 1 BestsellerWhat happens when you take on the establishment? In this blistering, personal account, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis blows the lid on Europe's hidden agenda and exposes what actually goes on in its corridors of power.

I denne let formidlede, præcise og humoristiske bog svarer den verdensberømte økonom Yanis Varoufakis på sin datter, Xenias, tilsyneladende enkle spørgsmål om, hvad økonomi egentlig er for noget. Gennem både personlige historier og referencer til berømte myter – lige fra Frankenstein og Faust til ‘The Matrix’ – forklarer han, hvordan økonomi som begreb voksede frem og har formet både menneskehedens historie og former vores liv i dag. Det er fortællingen om, hvordan byttehandler med frugt og hvede blev til penge og senere til markeder og stater med hære til at beskytte dem og bureaukratier til at styre dem. Men det er også fortællingen om, hvordan uligheden i verden blev til. I vores samfund er økonomi blevet det politiske modersmål, og økonomer betragtes som vismænd, men samtidig tror mange af os, at det handler om så komplekse ideer, at vi ikke kan være med. Her insisterer Yanis Varoufakis på, at hvis de grundlæggende økonomiske ideer ikke kan formidles uden fremmedord til et ungt menneske, så bliver de så abstrakte, at de ikke handler om den verden, vi deler. På én gang varm, intim og tilgængelig inviterer ‘Samtaler med min datter om økonomi’ os alle sammen – unge som gamle – ind i samtalen, så vi kan være med til at vælge, hvilken verden, vi vil have.

Imagine if Occupy and Extinction Rebellion actually won. In Another Now world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis shows us what such a world would look like.

In this dramatic narrative of Europe's economic rise and spectacular fall, Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, `the emerging rock star of Europe's anti-austerity uprising' (Telegraph), shows that the origins of the collapse go far deeper than our leaders are prepared to admit - and that we have done nothing so far to fix them.

A #1 Sunday Times bestseller [UK]A titanic battle is being waged for Europe's integrity and soul, with the forces of reason and humanism losing out to growing irrationality, authoritarianism, and malice, promoting inequality and austerity. The whole world has a stake in a victory for rationality, liberty, democracy, and humanism. In January 2015, Yanis Varoufakis, an economics professor teaching in Austin, Texas, was elected to the Greek parliament with more votes than any other member of parliament. He was appointed finance minister and, in the whirlwind five months that followed, everything he had warned about-the perils of the euro's faulty design, the European Union's shortsighted austerity policies, financialized crony capitalism, American complicity and rising authoritarianism-was confirmed as the "troika" (the European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund, and European Commission) stonewalled his efforts to resolve Greece's economic crisis. Here, Varoufakis delivers a fresh look at the history of Europe's crisis and America's central role in it. He presents the ultimate case against austerity, proposing concrete policies for Europe that are necessary to address its crisis and avert contagion to America, China, and the rest of the world. With passionate, informative, and at times humorous prose, he warns that the implosion of an admittedly crisis-ridden and deeply irrational European monetary union should, and can, be avoided at all cost.

In this rousing book, he charts the absurdities that underpin calls for austerity, as well as his own battles with a bureaucracy bent on ignoring the human cost of its every action. Passionately outspoken and tuned to the voices of the oppressed, Varoufakis presents a guide to modern economics, and its threat to democracy, like no other.

"The strong do as they can and the weak suffer what they must." -Thucydides The fate of the global economy hangs in the balance, and Europe is doing its utmost to undermine it, to destabilize America, and to spawn new forms of authoritarianism.

In this remarkable and provocative book, former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis explodes the myth that financialisation, ineffectual regulation of banks, greed and globalisation were the root causes of the global economic crisis.