Gianēs Varoufakēs Livres

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

'Why is there so much inequality?' Xenia asks her father, the world famous economist Yanis Varoufakis. Drawing on memories of her childhood and a variety of well-known tales - from Oedipus and Faust to Frankenstein and The Matrix - Varoufakis explains everything you need to know in order to understand why economics is the most important drama of our times. In answering his daughter's deceptively simple questions, Varoufakis disentangles our troubling world with remarkable clarity, while inspiring us to make it a better one.

In this thought-provoking book, Yanis Varoufakis challenges the belief that financialisation, poor bank regulation, greed, and globalisation were the primary causes of the global economic crisis.

"The strong do as they can and the weak suffer what they must."--Thucydides The global economy is at a critical juncture, with Europe potentially undermining it, destabilizing America, and fostering new authoritarianism. Historically, Europe has led the world into turmoil, and it risks doing so again. Yanis Varoufakis, former Finance Minister of Greece, argues that the Eurozone is a fragile structure destined to collapse without significant reform. He warns that the disintegration of the European Union could trigger a global economic crisis. After America withdrew from the dollar zone in 1971, European leaders established a monetary union of 18 nations lacking control over their currency, democratic accountability, and a supportive government for the Central Bank. This flawed economic entity was ill-equipped to handle financial crises, leading to catastrophic outcomes. The 2009 crisis saw Europe turn against its own citizens, inflicting humiliation and despair while fostering a resurgence of bigotry. Varoufakis proposes actionable policies for global intervention to avert disaster in Europe and presents a compelling argument against austerity. With passionate and often humorous prose, he emphasizes the urgent need to prevent the collapse of a deeply flawed European capitalism.

'What an amazing piece of work this is. Ground-breaking, thought-provoking and highly accessible. Everyone should read it. The dark, scary, exciting song of our age. 100 out of 100' IRVINE WELSHCapitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism.In his boldest and most far-reaching book, the visionary economist and number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis shows how the owners of big tech became the world's feudal overlords - replacing capitalism with a fundamentally new system that enslaves our minds, defies democracy and rewrite the rules of global power.But as Varoufakis also reveals, technofeudalism contains new opportunities to thwart and overturn it, bringing into focus more clearly than ever the revolution we need to escape our digital prison.'An epochal, once-in-a-millennium shift . . . this isn't just new technology. This is the world grappling with an entirely new economic system and therefore political power' Observer'An urgent demand to seize the means of computation' CORY DOCTOROWA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

"'We need to organise politically to defend the weak, empower the many and prepare the ground for reversing the absurdities of capitalism.' - Yanis Varoufakis. 'Capitalism over the past twenty-five years has been an incredible moral good.' - David Brooks. The Munk debate on capitalism: There is a growing belief that the capitalist system no longer works. Inequality is rampant. The environment is being destroyed for profits. In some western nations, life expectancy is even falling. Political power is wielded by wealthy elites and big business, not the people. But for proponents of capitalism, it is the engine of progress, not just making all of us materially better off, but helping to address everything from women's rights to political freedoms. We seem to stand at a crossroads: do we need to fix the system as a matter of urgency, or would it be better to hold our nerve?'"-- Provided by publisher

'One of my few heroes. As long as people like Varoufakis are around, there still is hope' Slavoj Zizek Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No billionaires. 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. Far from being a fantasy, he describes how it could have come about - and might yet. But would we really want it? Varoufakis's boundary-breaking new book confounds expectations of what the good society would look like and confronts us with the greatest question: are we able to build a better society, despite our flaws.

Eleni put an arm around him and said: "Come, come, life is ahead of us. Raise your soul now. We have much to do." This is a book about how the great forces of history shape us - and how world-famous political activist Yanis Varoufakis was inspired by the resilience and the courage of his family, from his mother Eleni and grandmothers Anna and Trisevgeni, to his partner Danae. It is both an intimate portrait of a political awakening and a dramatic sweep through Greece's history of post-colonial independence, Nazi occupation, communist partisan resistance, Cold War fracture, civil war, fascist dictatorship, socialist revival and tumultuous present-day economic collapse. Raise Your Soul is a powerful tale of resistance and endurance - a beacon of hope for dark times.

Yanis Varoufakis argumentiert in seinem neuen Buch, dass der Kapitalismus durch den Technofeudalismus ersetzt wurde. Er beschreibt, wie die Geldpolitik nach der Finanzkrise 2008 und die Privatisierung des Internets durch große Tech-Unternehmen zu einem neuen, ausbeuterischen System geführt haben. Varoufakis erklärt diesen Wandel anhand von Geschichten aus der Mythologie und Popkultur.

Der Euro ist weiter instabil, die Ökonomien der Südländer der EU befinden sich am Boden und überall bekommen rechtsextreme Parteien Zulauf. Trotz alledem gilt der eingeschlagene Kurs immer noch als alternativlos. Um dieses Dogma zu überwinden, diskutieren in diesem Band die prononciertesten politischen Philosophen und Ökonomen Europas über die Ursache, den Zustand und die Lösung der Eurokrise. So wirft Varoufakis einen Blick zurück und berichtet anschaulich von seinen Erfahrungen als Finanzminister, wie die Entscheidungen auf höchster Ebene getroffen werden und welche gravierenden Demokratiedefizite die EU prägen, entwirft aber auch einen Reformplan für ein neues Europa. Doch ist eine politische Kehrtwende nach Jahrzehnten siegreichen Neoliberalismus noch einfach so möglich oder hat nicht die Demokratie grundlegenderen Schaden genommen? Der Debattenband versammelt Vorschläge und Einsprüche zur Zukunft Europas und bietet einen Ausgangspunkt für alle, die sich dem falschen Zwang der Alternativlosigkeit nicht ergeben wollen.

Collection of thirteen essays of leading politicians, entrepreneurs, sociologists, investors etc. examining the need of a new social system as a result of the digital revolution.

Varufakisovo Jiné teď vtáhne čtenáře a čtenářky do paralelního světa, v němž se společnost po finanční krizi v roce 2008 odklonila od kapitalismu. Tento politicko-vědecký román vykresluje realistickou utopii, kde kapitalismus nahradil demokraticky řízený, technologicky založený systém připomínající anarchosyndikalismus. Přestože se kniha snaží odpovědět na otázku, jak by měl vypadat demokratický socialismus v dnešních podmínkách, nejde o žádný manifest. Alternativní vize je podrobena různým pohledům tří hlavních postav, kteří ji umisťují do aktuální společenské diskuse. Jiné teď je myšlenkový experiment, který čtenáře a čtenářky vybízí k novému promyšlení základních principů našeho světa a nabízí inspiraci spravedlivější alternativou.

Kapitalismus je mrtvý. Vítejte v technofeudalismu. Zatímco jsme byli příliš rozptýleni pandemií, nekonečnými finančními krizemi nebo vzestupem sociálních sítí, prosadil se nový, ještě více vykořisťující systém. Miliardy, které měly pomoci postavit ekonomiku na nohy, skončily u velkých technologických firem. Ve své nejodvážnější a nejzávažnější knize odhaluje vizionářský ekonom a autor mnoha bestsellerů Janis Varufakis, jak noví feudální vládci nahradili kapitalismus s jeho dvěma pilíři, trhem a ziskem, systémem, který si podrobuje naši mysl, znemožňuje demokracii a přepisuje pravidla globální moci. Pomocí příběhů z řeckých mýtů a popkultury, od Homéra po Mad Men, vysvětluje Varufakis tuto revoluční transformaci, ale také odhaluje, že technofeudalismus obsahuje nové možnosti, jak jej zvrátit a nahradit. Jasněji než kdy dřív vyzdvihuje potřebu revoluce, která nás osvobodí z digitálního vězení. Technofeudalismus je četba pro novou dějinnou éru.