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Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis

Writing for PS since 2015
102 commentaries
5 videos & podcasts

Yanis Varoufakis, a former finance minister of Greece, is leader of the MeRA25 party and Professor of Economics at the University of Athens. 

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  1. Who’s Afraid of Central Bank Digital Currencies?
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    Who’s Afraid of Central Bank Digital Currencies?

    May 15, 2023 Yanis Varoufakis shows how CBDCs would stop the financial industry from holding societies hostage.

  2. The Strange Death of the Liberal Individual
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    The Strange Death of the Liberal Individual

    Apr 24, 2023 Yanis Varoufakis argues that in today's online society, the curation of personal identity has become inseparable from work.

  3. Let the Banks Burn
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    Let the Banks Burn

    Mar 24, 2023 Yanis Varoufakis shows why the current private system is unfixable – and why we don’t need to tolerate it anymore.

  4. Will China Dump Its Dark Deal with America?
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    Will China Dump Its Dark Deal with America?

    Feb 13, 2023 Yanis Varoufakis thinks the new cold war with the US could take away a decades-long pillar of the dollar’s global primacy.

  5. Is Europe Deindustrializing?
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    Is Europe Deindustrializing?

    Jan 23, 2023 Yanis Varoufakis argues that the problem is bigger than factory closures, as the automobile and green-energy sectors show.

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    Anti-Semitism and Intersectionality

    Slavoj Žižek

    The European Jewish Association’s recent insistence on the exceptional nature of anti-Semitism raises important questions about the nature of privilege and oppression in contemporary societies. The risk is that the EJA’s conceptual framework could all too easily reproduce the very bigotry it seeks to oppose.

    sees problems with efforts to treat hatred toward Jews separately from other forms of bigotry.
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    Not Buying Central Banks’ Favorite Excuse

    Raghuram G. Rajan shows why monetary policymakers must bear some of the blame for the latest banking-sector turmoil.
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    The Lost Liberal Legal Imagination

    Nicholas Reed Langen considers the complicated legacy of a progressive jurist whom conservatives now champion.
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    Saved by the Pandemic?

    Scott Fulford explains why its successful COVID-19 stimulus could help the US forge a path to financial stability for all.
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    How Much Work Is Enough?

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Autumn McDonald explain how the pandemic raised new questions – and some very old ones – for employers and employees.
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    How the Far Left Paves the Way for the Far Right

    Andrés Velasco

    In October 2022, Chileans elected a far-left constitutional convention which produced a text so bizarrely radical that nearly two-thirds of voters rejected it. Now Chileans have elected a new Constitutional Council and put a far-right party in the driver’s seat.

    blames Chilean President Gabriel Boric's coalition for the rapid rise of far right populist José Antonio Kast.
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    Creeping Toward Dystopia

    Robert Skidelsky worries that even elected governments will appropriate emerging technologies in the name of national security.
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    The Climate Loss and Damage Fund Is Coming

    Sameh Shoukry assesses recent efforts to implement a crucial initiative agreed at last year’s UN Climate Change Conference.
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    China’s Youth Unemployment Problem

    Nancy Qian warns that diminishing opportunities for new graduates will have profound long-run macroeconomic implications.

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