Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist, academic, politician and author. He grew up in Athens and moved to the UK in 1978 to study. After obtaining a postgraduate degree in mathematical statistics from the University of Birmingham and a PhD in economics from the University of Essex, Varoufakis embarked on a career in academia, during which he worked in Sydney, Athens, Texas and Stockholm.
Star economist and author of Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis returns with a compelling vision of what a new post-Capitalist society might look like.
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In January 2015, Varoufakis was elected to the Greek Parliament and appointed the Minister of Finance. He was actively involved in dealing with the aftermath of the Greek debt crisis.Varoufakis has published several bestselling books on the global financial imbalance, including The Global Minotaur (2011), And the Weak Suffer What They Must? (2016), Adults in the Room (2017) and the Waterstones Book of the Year shortlisted Talking to My Daughter about the Economy (2017). His most recent book, Another Now, was published in September 2020.
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