Yanis Varoufakis
After teaching in various British Universities, Yanis Varoufakis spent twelve years teaching at the University of Sydney (Australia) before returning to Athens where he directs the University of Athens’ Political Economy Division. His earlier books include Modern Political Economics: Making sense of the post-2008 world (with J. Halevi and N. Theocarakis) and Game Theory: A critical text (with S. Hargreaves-Heap). Recently, he has emerged as an active participant in the debates over the Global, European and Greek Crises as well as a co-founder of www.vitalspace.org
Books by Yanis Varoufakis
Global Minotaur
America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the future of the World Economy
Yanis Varoufakis
In this remarkable and provocative book, Yanis Varoufakis explodes the myth that financialization, ineffectual regulation of banks, greed and globalization were the root causes of 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. Just as the Athenians maintained a steady flow of tributes to the Cretan beast, so the &lsquo… (more information)