Yanis Varoufakis » Politics and Economics

On 14th February 2024, I had the great privilege of a live discussion with Aaron Bastani in front of a marvellous audience at EartH in Hackney, North-East London. We talked about, of course, Isra...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2024/03/02/our-present-moment-in-history-a-wide-ranging-discussion-with-aaron-bastani-in-a-packed-earthh-theatre-14th-feb-2024/

Ash speaks to Yanis Varoufakis and film director Raoul Martinez about their new film Eye Of The Storm: The Political Odyssey of Yanis Varoufakis, what the left got wrong after 2008 and the West�...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2024/02/22/novara-interview-on-almost-everything-e-g-crisis-democracy-syria-israel-palestine-journalism-at-gunpoint/

Sat down to discuss the downfall of capitalism and Western hegemony, the Labour Party’s shunt to the right, and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Also, we discussed Raoul Martinez’s do...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2024/02/22/politicsjoe-interview-on-capitalism-technofeudalism-the-labour-party-western-hegemony-and-gaza/

Interviewed by by Deborah Frances-White in Brian Eno’s Studio, on the occasion of the launch of  Raoul Martinez’s IN THE EYE OF THE STORM: Yanis Varoufakis’ Political Odyssey Recorded 15 F...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2024/02/22/the-guilty-feminist-culture-club-in-the-eye-of-the-storm-with-yanis-varoufakis-and-raoul-martinez/

Discussing the surge of ultra-rightist populism, where I argued it all started with the West’s response to the 2008 crash – just like after 1929. When $35 trillion was printed on behalf of fi...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/12/11/on-the-causes-and-nature-of-populisms-surge-interviewed-on-bbc-radio-4s-the-world-this-weekend/

Ms Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, Esteemed colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, before I address the question of taxing serious wealth seriously, I you forgive my inability to pr...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/11/18/how-should-we-tax-wealth-multinationals-globally-speech-at-undp-new-york-14th-nov-2023/

Invited and chaired by Patrick Lovell (director of The Con), in this video Bill Black and I discuss financial corruption in the USA and the EU. Bill Black needs no introduction. As a lawyer he f...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/09/14/bill-black-and-yanis-varoufakis-discussing-corruption-in-finance-video/

On this episode of the podcast I speak with Yanis Varoufakis about the role of banks and politicians. Yanis is an economist, politician, author and Secretary-General of MeRA25. He is perhaps best...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/07/18/what-is-money-and-who-rules-the-world-yanis-varoufakis-on-escaped-sapiens-46/

Once upon a time, the greed of tobacco companies was channeled through libertarian outrage over the restriction of smokers’ freedom to choose cancer. Today, the outrage is serving the interests...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/06/01/whos-afraid-of-central-bank-digital-currencies/

Only a comprehensive reconfiguration of property rights over the increasingly cloud-based instruments of production, distribution, collaboration, and communication can rescue the foundational lib...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/06/01/the-strange-death-of-the-liberal-individual-project-syndicate-op-ed/

On 7th February 2023, I returned to the Chamber to discuss a wide variety of issues, beginning with a Europe-at-war, post-Brexit Britain, the New Cold War that marks capitalism’s global transit...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/03/24/britain-europe-the-new-cold-war-finance-technofeudalism-at-the-cambridge-union/

A diverse group of global thinkers answers 8 fundamental questions about economics and capitalism. In this video interview, Yanis Varoufakis has a go: 0:00 – Prologue 01:19 – Intro 01:38 – ...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/02/26/age-of-economics-interview-on-economics-and-capitalism-video/

The War in Ukraine has sped up the division of the world into two technofeudal fiefdoms – one US dollar denominated and one Chinese yuan denominated. As the world bifurcates, class struggles wi...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/02/26/the-new-non-aligned-movement-and-new-economic-system-we-have-a-duty-to-work-towards-havana-address-27th-january-2023/

So used are we to the idea of an ‘electricity market’ that the next sentence may jar in your mind: There is no such thing as an electricity market! In this video I explain why those who talk ...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/02/26/exposing-the-scam-that-is-an-electricity-market-any-electricity-market/

From the Great Moderation to the Great Crash, the Great Recession, the Great Stagnation, the Great Inflation and, finally, to the Great Volatility. What are the forces driving this 50yr dynamic? ...

https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/02/26/whats-behind-the-great-volatility-audio-of-ssga-zurich-address/