Tento autor sa zameriava na kritiku a demystifikáciu ekonomickej teórie, predovšetkým odhaľovaním jej metodologických nedostatkov a zjednodušujúcich matematických modelov. Jeho práca vychádza z osobnej skúsenosti s autoritárskym režimom, čo ho viedlo k odmietnutiu cynizmu a k obrane pokroku a slobody myslenia. S neopozeraným prístupom sa snaží podkopať to, čo je v ekonómii považované za legitímnu vedu, a vyzýva čitateľov k hlbšiemu zamysleniu nad podstatou ekonomických argumentov.
How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of
us? Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he became the
finance minister of Greece. In this rousing book, he charts the absurdities
that underpin calls for austerity, as well as his own battles with a
bureaucracy bent on ignoring the human cost of its every action. Passionately
outspoken and tuned to the voices of the oppressed, Varoufakis presents a
guide to modern economics, and its threat to democracy, like no other.
Môj boj s európskym establišmentom.
Zahryznite sa do skutočného európskeho politického trileru. Tajné nahrávky. Prepisy telefonátov. Úskoky. Falošné úsmevy. A bezohľadné intrigy. Nahliadnite za oponu moci v nevšednom osobnom spracovaní bývalého gréckeho ministra financií Janisa Varoufakisa.
Počas gréckeho krachu v roku 2015 sa európski lídri na spoločných stretnutiach snažili nájsť cestu a východisko z krízy.
Vtedajší grécky minister financií s nimi rozohral jednu z najveľkolepejších a najkontroverznejších politických bitiek histórie, keď sa pokúsil o prerokovanie vzťahov svojej krajiny k Európskej únii. S masovou podporou gréckeho obyvateľstva a jednoduchou logikou svojich argumentov privádzal vedenie Európskej únie do šialenstva. Skutočný príbeh o tom, čo sa dialo za zavretými dverami však zostával dlho neznámy.
Varoufakisove nebojácne ťahy odkrývajú faloš a pokrytectvo politickej moci, ktorá sa viac ako o stabilitu usiluje o vlastný prospech a zároveň s chirurgickou presnosťou popisujú fungovanie politického zákulisia.
Dospeláci v miestnosti sú mimoriadne dôležitým a vážnym zvonením na poplach. Zobuďme sa a pomôžme európskej demokracii k znovuzrodeniu!
'The emerging rock-star of Europe's anti-austerity uprising.' Daily Telegraph 'A spirited book.' New Yorker In this remarkable and provocative book, Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, explodes the myth that financialisation, ineffectual regulation of banks, greed and globalisation were the root causes of both the Eurozone crisis and the global economic crisis. Rather, they are symptoms of a much deeper malaise which can be traced all the way back to the Great Crash of 1929, then on through to the 1970s: the time when a Global Minotaur was born. Today's deepening crisis in Europe is just one of the inevitable symptoms of the weakening Minotaur; of a global system which is now as unsustainable as it is imbalanced. Going beyond this, Varoufakis reveals how we might reintroduce a modicum of reason into what has become a perniciously irrational economic order. An essential account of the socio-economic events and hidden histories that have shaped the world as we now know it.
'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
'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.
What would a fair and equal society look like? The world-renowned economist and bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis presents his radical and subversive answer. Imagine it is now 2025 and that years earlier, in the wake of the world financial crisis of 2008, a new post-Capitalist society had been born. In this ingenious book, Yanis Varoufakis draws on the greatest thinkers in European culture from Plato to Marx, as well as the great thought-experiments of science fiction, to offer us a dramatic and tantalising glimpse of a brave new world where the principles of democracy, equality and justice are truly embedded in our economy. Through the eyes of three characters - a liberal economist, a radical feminist and a left-wing technologist - we come to see what would be needed to forge such a world but also at what cost. This transformative vision forces each of us to confront the profound questions and trade-offs that underpin all societies- how do we balance freedom with fairness? How do we unleash the best that humanity has to offer without opening the door to the worst? Another Now offers answers to some of the most pressing questions of today. It also challenges us to consider how far we are willing to go in pursuit of our ideals.
