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He has been secretarygeneral of mera25, a leftwing political party, since he founded it in 2018. He might be an economist, though his conversation with margaret levi a stanford political scientist at the cambridge union last thursday evening on 7th november 2019 smashed the academic boundary walls of economics in style. Varoufakis vividly explains the basic concepts of standard economic theory utility, preferences, etc. Minister yanis varoufakis, argues that the nationstate is dead and democracy in the eu has been replaced by a toxic algorithmic depoliticisation that, if it is not confronted, will lead to depression, disintegration. It essentially analyses the period 20092015, though it makes incursions into earlier periods. Yanis varoufakis 2014 born in athens in 1961, yanis varoufakis earned his phd in economics from the university of essex and has held academic appointments at the universities of essex, east anglia, cambridge, glasgow, sydney, and athens. He served as an economic advisor to greek prime minister, george papandreou, before resigning in 2006, and. A professor of economic theory at the university of athens and former member of parliament for athens largest constituency, he is the author of the global minotaur, among other books. He speaks to audiences of thousands worldwide and is the author of the international bestseller and the weak suffer. Varoufakis was born in palaio faliro, athens, on 24 march 1961, to georgios and eleni varoufakis varoufakis s father, georgios varoufakis, was an egyptiote greek but ultimately originating from rethymno in crete who emigrated from cairo to greece in the 1940s, arriving in the midst of the greek civil war. Yanis varoufakis, a former finance minister of greece, is leader of the mera25 party and professor of economics at the university of athens. Apr 11, 2020 yanis varoufakis has been adamant that he is not a politician. Yanis varoufakiss doomed fight against austerity in his new book, the former greek finance minister reveals how europes leading powers forced harsh economic policies on his country.
Sep 01, 2017 varoufakis tells how they spent the evening of the election of 4 october 2009, in which pasok was victorious, together in stournarass apartment. Game theory in the encyclopedia of political theory, vol. Apr 03, 2016 he is a deluded selfapologist if he thinks greece in 2010, but not greece under his watch, could have outnegotiated germany and all the rest, keeping the euro or avoiding any negative impacts whatsoever from the inevitable collapse of the new greek currency, given the abysmal and correct levels of trust vested in successive greek governments by literally everybody. The material is intended for light reading as well as official research for matters which will affect greece and yanis varoufakiss dealings in the near future as finance minister. Varoufakiss questionable account of the origins of the.
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