"My reason for writing... was the conviction that the economy is too important to leave to the economists.”
Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist, academic, and politician who rose to international prominence in 2015 as Greece's Minister of Finance. His outspoken criticism of the European Union's economics and confrontational style nearly caused Greece to leave the Euro. He has since become leader of the DiEM25 party, which seeks to reform the EU from within.
Yanis has a storied career as an academic and public intellectual. He has held academic positions at the Universities of Cambridge, East Anglia, Sydney, Glasgow, Athens, Austin and Stockholm. He has since written several bestselling books around popular economics, with hist most recent book Technofeudalism outlining how capitalism has been replaced with a modern version of feudalism.
"Varoufakis is a remarkable combination of analyst and dreamer." — Financial Times