An explosive, headline-making account from the world-famous economist of what happens when you take on the EU establishment
Yanis Varoufakis is the former finance minister of Greece and 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. Born in Athens in
1961, Yanis Varoufakis was for many years a professor of economics
in Britain, Australia and the USA before he entered government and
is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Athens.
Since resigning from Greece's finance ministry he has co-founded an
international grassroots movement, DiEM25, campaigning for the
revival of democracy in Europe and speaks to audiences of thousands
worldwide.
yanisvaroufakis.eu / @yanisvaroufakis
Varoufakis has written one of the greatest political memoirs of all
time [and] one of the most accurate and detailed descriptions of
modern power ever written
*Guardian*
An important, terrifying must-read. In particular, it anatomises
the way in which EU leaders operate with a brutal clarity …
shocking and ultimately tragic … He gets to the heart of their
failure more acutely than anyone … Varoufakis has the greatest
political virtues of all – courage and honesty
*The Times*
A tremendously indiscreet account … drawing upon his own audio
recordings and diaries of top-level meetings. It is deeply personal
and very well written
*Financial Times*
The most jaw-dropping segments are the accounts of phone calls and
closed-door meetings – often verbatim, courtesy of his secret
recordings – between ministers and technocrats ... We see duplicity
and cynicism ruling supreme .. A convincing critique ... Our own
government should take note
*Daily Telegraph*
This is a superbly written account of the struggle to alleviate the
austerity imposed upon the Greek people by the eurozone. Greece,
argues Varoufakis, has been put in a debtors’ prison and robbed of
autonomy and dignity for the indefinite future. Critics would argue
that he failed as finance minister in 2015 because he was
insufficiently politic. More plausibly, he could never have
succeeded, such were the vested interests arrayed against him. This
outcome was — and is — a tragedy, because he was — and is — right.
The bulk of Greek debt should indeed be cancelled outright. Read
and weep
*Martin Wolf, Financial Times Summer Reads*
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