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Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis

Writing for PS since 2015
105 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. Europe’s Fading Democracy
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    Europe’s Fading Democracy

    Aug 21, 2023 Yanis Varoufakis vents his growing misgivings about the representativeness of the European Union's political institutions.

  2. Austerity Ruined Europe, and Now It’s Back
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    Austerity Ruined Europe, and Now It’s Back

    Jul 19, 2023 Yanis Varoufakis foresees a widening gap with the US as investment lags and workers' real wages continue to fall.

  3. New AI Germ Busters Can Also Bust Unions
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    New AI Germ Busters Can Also Bust Unions

    Jun 2, 2023 Yanis Varoufakis shows how an AI-driven biomedical breakthrough could rob workers of what little power they have left.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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    Whither the G20?

    Takatoshi Ito

    Following the latest G20 summit, the G7 should be thinking seriously about deepening its own ties with more non-aligned countries. If the Ukraine war drags on, and if China continues to threaten to take Taiwan by force, the G20 will be split between friends of the BRICS and friends of the G7.

    sees the grouping as increasingly divided between friends of the G7 and friends of China and Russia.
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    Making the Most of Africa’s Strategic Green Minerals

    Marit Kitaw explains how the continent can move beyond resource extraction to build green industry.
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    America Must Join Europe’s Climate Club

    Gary Yohe & Roger Kuhns urge US policymakers to create a carbon-pricing policy in line with the bloc’s emissions-reduction plan.
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    Measuring Corruption in China

    Yongheng Deng & Shang-Jin Wei outline a novel approach to assessing the extent and scope of the country's graft problem.
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    To Protect Democracy, Revive Local Journalism

    Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca identify promising new models and philanthropic initiatives geared toward supporting independent media.
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    How to Achieve Universal Cancer Care

    Sonali Johnson urges governments worldwide to include the disease in national health-insurance schemes.
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    What Climate Finance Needs

    Nouriel Roubini & Reza Bundy

    To prevent catastrophic climate change and accelerate the global transition to a net-zero economy, policymakers and asset owners urgently need to rethink how we channel capital at scale. The key is to develop new financial instruments that are profitable, liquid, and easily accessible to savers and investors globally.

    explain what it will take to channel private capital and savings toward sustainable development.
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    Down on the Biden Economy

    James K. Galbraith thinks the failure of wages to keep up with inflation explains much of the public’s dour mood.
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    The Dollar’s Full-Spectrum Dominance

    Carla Norrlöf foresees the greenback’s continued global hegemony owing to network effects and opportunism.

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