Yanis Varoufakis is the former finance minister of Greece. He was
for many years a professor of economics in Britain, Australia and
the USA before he entered government. He 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, which campaigns for the revival of
democracy in Europe. He is the author of Adults in the Room
and the Sunday Times Number 1 bestseller And the Week Suffer
What They Must?
'The emerging rock-star of Europe's anti-austerity uprising'
Daily Telegraph'His argument has an ambitious sweep.'
The Times
'This trenchant and readable critique sets the eurozone crisis
within a much longer context.'
London Evening Standard
'A spirited book.'
New Yorker
'The book is one of those exceedingly rare publications of which
one can say they are urgent, timely and absolutely necessary.'
Terry Eagleton'Yanis Varoufakis is a rare economist: skilled at
explaining ideas, happy to join in public debates and able to put
his discipline in a broader context.'
Aditya Chakrabortty, Guardian lead economics writer'Yanis is one of
the best, brightest and most innovative economists on the
planet.'
Steve Keen, author of Debunking Economics'Clearly and strongly
written, with logical organization building towards simple
conclusions, the book is an easy yet rewarding read ... perhaps
should become the standard way we think about the nature of our
increasingly dysfunctional world economy.'
Joel Campbell, International Affairs'In the most comprehensive
guide to the contemporary economic crisis yet written, Yanis
Varoufakis traces out the path from post-war US economic supremacy
to the current predicament.'
Gary Dymski, University of California, Riverside'If you want to
know how serious the current crisis is, you should read this book.
With much eloquence, Yanis Varoufakis argues that the current
financial problems are connected to the emerging fault lines of the
international monetary system.'
Shaun Hargreaves-Heap, University of East Anglia'An
all-encompassing account of Western postwar history, seen through
the lens of one overriding problem: how to resolve the imbalances
in financial flows between nations.'
The European Legacy
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