Name: Talking to my Daughter About the Economy: Or, how Capitalism Works--And how it Fails
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Author: Yanis Varoufakis
ISBN: 9780374538491

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Talking to my Daughter About the Economy: Or, how Capitalism Works--And how it Fails

Type

Physical Book

Author

Yanis Varoufakis

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

222

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.1 x 12.7 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN13

9780374538491

Synopsis "Talking to my Daughter About the Economy: Or, how Capitalism Works--And how it Fails "

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionIn Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption of world economics. Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of nations, assemblies of experts, and countless students around the world. Now, he faces his most important--and difficult--audience yet. Using clear language and vivid examples, Varoufakis offers a series of letters to his young daughter about the economy: how it operates, where it came from, how it benefits some while impoverishing others. Taking bankers and politicians to task, he explains the historical origins of inequality among and within nations, questions the pervasive notion that everything has its price, and shows why economic instability is a chronic risk. Finally, he discusses the inability of market-driven policies to address the rapidly declining health of the planet his daughter's generation stands to inherit. Throughout, Varoufakis wears his expertise lightly. He writes as a parent whose aim is to instruct his daughter on the fundamental questions of our age--and through that knowledge, to equip her against the failures and obfuscations of our current system and point the way toward a more democratic alternative.

Yanis Varoufakis

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Yanis Varoufakis is an essayist, activist, lecturer, and Greco-Australian politician considered the world's best-selling economist. A reputed academic, he was educated at the universities of Essex and Birmingham, has served as a professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, and currently teaches at the University of Athens.

He rose to fame in 2015 when, as the Minister of Finance of Greece, he confronted the eurozone countries over the Greek debt crisis. He recounted this fight against the troika in his autobiography Adults in the Room, published by Deusto in 2017 and named by The Guardian as "one of the 100 best books of the 21st century". He has published other bestsellers such as And the Weak Suffer What They Must? (Deusto, 2016), Another Now (Deusto, 2021), and is also the author of The Global Minotaur (Captain Swing, 2012) and Talking to My Daughter About the Economy (Destino, 2015).

Co-founder of the international movement DiEM25 and the Progressive International along with Bernie Sanders, he is a regular contributor to international media such as The Guardian. Business Insider considers him "the most interesting man in the world".

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