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Yanis Varoufakis

Born

in Palaio Faliro, Greece

March 24, 1961

Website

http://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu

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Economics, Politics

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Ioannis "Yanis" Varoufakis is a Greek-Australian economist and politician. A former academic, he has been Secretary-General of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), a left-wing pan-European political party he co-founded in 2016. A former member of Syriza, he served as Minister of Finance from January to July 2015 under Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

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Γιατί οι πλουτοκράτες λατρεύουν τον πόλεμο του Τραμπ

Όταν άρχισαν να πέφτουν βροχή οι βόμβες στο Ιράν, τις θεώρησα απαρχή του Βατερλό του Ντόναλντ Τραμπ. Βλέποντας το πολιτικό του κίνημα, μια περίεργη συμμαχία εξαγριωμένων προλετάριων και αχόρταγων πλουτοκρατών, να βυθίζεται σε εμφύλιο ταξικό πόλεμο, παράφρασα εκείνο που είχε πει ο Τσόρτσιλ για τη Μάχη του Ελ Αλαμέιν: πριν από το Ιράν, ο Τραμπ δεν είχε αντιμετωπίσει καμία ήττα – μετά το Ιράν, δεν θα Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 4.1 · 48,198 ratings · 5,920 reviews · 63 distinct works • Similar authors

	Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails by Yanis Varoufakis, Jacob Moe (Translator) 4.14 avg rating — 21,771 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism 4.02 avg rating — 10,661 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment 4.31 avg rating — 5,283 ratings — published 2017 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future 4.10 avg rating — 3,432 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy 4.17 avg rating — 2,495 ratings — published 2011 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present 3.79 avg rating — 2,681 ratings — published 2020 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Austerity 4.04 avg rating — 340 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance 4.29 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 2025 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Europe after the Minotaur: Greece and the Future of the Global Economy 3.76 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Foundations of Economics: A beginner's companion 4.28 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 1998 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The worst slavery is that of heavily indoctrinated happy morons who adore their chains and cannot wait to thank their masters for the joy of their subservience.”
― Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism

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“Most politicians cannot be theorists. First, because they are rarely thinkers; second, because the frenetic lifestyle they impose on themselves leaves no time for big ideas. But most of all because to be a theorist you have to admit the possibility of being wrong – the provisionality of knowledge – and you know you cannot spin your way out of a theoretical problem.”
― Yanis Varoufakis, The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy

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“As Tony Benn, the British Labour politician, once suggested, we should constantly ask those who govern us five questions: What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?”
― Yanis Varoufakis, And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future

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