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The crisis in Europe is not over its getting worse In this dramatic narrative of Europes economic rise and spectacular fall Yanis Varoufakis former finance minister of Greece the emerging rock star of Europes antiausterity uprising Telegraph shows that the origins of the collapse go far deeper than our leaders are prepared to admit and that we have done nothing so far to fix them In 2008 the universe of Western finance outgrew planet Earth When Wall Street imploded a death embrace between insolvent banks and bankrupt states consumed Europe Half a dozen national economies imploded and several more came close But the storm is far from over From the aftermath of the Second World War to the present Varoufakis recounts how the eurozone emerged not as route to shared prosperity but as a pyramid scheme of debt with countries such as Greece Ireland Portugal and Spain at its bottom Its woeful design ensured that collapse would be inevitable and catastrophic But since the hurricane landed Europes leaders have chosen a cocktail of more debt and harsh austerity rather than reform ensuring that the weakest citizens of the weakest nations pay the price for the bankers mistakes while doing nothing to prevent the next collapse Instead the principle of the greatest austerity for those suffering the greatest recessions has led to a resurgence of racist extremism Once more Europe is a potent threat to global stability Drawing on the personal experience of his own negotiations with the eurozones financiers and offering concrete policies and alternatives Varoufakis shows how we concocted this mess and how we can get out of it And The Weak Suffer What They Must reminds us of our history in order to save European capitalism from itself
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Yanis Varoufakis is the former finance minister of Greece and the author of several international bestsellers. And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability reveals the underlying problems that led to the Eurozone crisis and its ongoing catastrophic mishandling. Adults In the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment is his explosive memoir of his time in goverment, which reveals what goes on behind the scenes in Europe's corridors of power. Talking To My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism explains through vivid stories and easily graspable concepts what economics actually is and why it is so dangerous in the form of a letter to his teenage daughter. Born in Athens in 1961, Yanis Varoufakis was for many years a professor of economics in Britain, Australia and the USA before he entered government and is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Athens. Since resigning from Greece's finance ministry he has co-founded an international grassroots movement, DiEM25, campaigning for the revival of democracy in Europe and speaks to audiences of thousands worldwide. yanisvaroufakis.eu / @yanisvaroufakis
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"If you ever doubt what is at stake in Europe, read Varoufakis's account" * Guardian * "An outstanding economist and political analyst. His remarkable talents are fully on display in his recent study of Europe's crisis, a most revealing and perceptive analysis of the development of the global economy in the past half century and their grim consequences now threatening Western societies" -- Noam Chomsky "An absolutely splendid book... What Yanis really shows is that the European project had a democratic deficit from the origin and design... The Thucydides of our time" -- Jeffrey Sachs "One of my few heroes...his achievements are incredibly important...to save what is worth fighting for in Europe...Yanis tried to do the right thing - to remain within the EU and disturb from within. That is why he was such a threat...wonderfully written, complex, a book which is set to provoke our rage...to make us think, and that's what we need today. As long as people like Yanis are around, there still is hope" -- Slavoj Zizek "One of my few heroes...his achievements are incredibly important...to save what is worth fighting for in Europe...Yanis tried to do the right thing - to remain within the EU and disturb from within. That is why he was such a threat...wonderfully written, complex, a book which is set to provoke our rage...to make us think, and that's what we need today. As long as people like Yanis are around, there still is hope" -- Slavoj Zizek
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