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Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis

Writing for PS since 2015
112 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. A Tax on Robots?
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    A Tax on Robots?

    Mar 11, 2024 Yanis Varoufakis has an alternative to Bill Gates's suggestion for offsetting the social costs of automation.

  2. Economics Is Irredeemably Sexist
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    Economics Is Irredeemably Sexist

    Mar 6, 2024 Yanis Varoufakis blames the field’s dearth of women on the male chauvinist pig in the middle of it, masquerading as the avatar of rationality.

  3. The Two Faces of the Euro
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    The Two Faces of the Euro

    Jan 19, 2024 Yanis Varoufakis traces the monetary union's travails to the conflicting visions of Jacques Delors and Wolfgang Schäuble.

  4. Europe’s Bad China Bluff
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    Europe’s Bad China Bluff

    Dec 19, 2023 Yanis Varoufakis exposes the weakness and futility of the European Union’s case for punitive trade sanctions.

  5. Europe’s 15-Year Slump
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    Europe’s 15-Year Slump

    Nov 22, 2023 Yanis Varoufakis explains why the European Union has fallen behind the United States and China since the 2008 financial crisis.

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    Business Lessons from the Fall of Icarus

    Vanessa Badré scrutinizes a Flemish masterpiece to glean insights into the challenges of corporate social responsibility.
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    China Tightens Its Grip on Hong Kong

    Chris Patten condemns the latest attempt by the Communist Party’s puppet government to curb democratic freedoms.
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    The Struggle for Currency Supremacy

    Paolo Tasca

    New techno-powered alternative currencies should not be seen as decisive challenges to the US dollar. Instead, they are best understood as pawns in an older game of strategic dominance for which there is no end in sight.

    expects that digital assets will accelerate efforts to create alternatives to the US dollar.
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    The Oligarch, His Ex-Wife, Her Mother, and Rupert Murdoch

    Nina L. Khrushcheva contemplates the media mogul's impending marriage to the Russian biologist Elena Zhukova.
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    The Immigration Tinderbox

    In the United States and Europe, immigration tends to divide people into opposing camps: those who claim that newcomers undermine economic opportunity and security for locals, and those who argue that welcoming migrants and refugees is a moral and economic imperative. How should one make sense of a debate that is often based on motivated reasoning, with emotion and underlying biases affecting the selection and interpretation of evidence?

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    Senegal’s Election and Africa’s Future

    Rabah Arezki considers what Bassirou Diomaye Faye's presidency could mean for one of Africa's most closely watched democracies.
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    America Must Lead on Crypto Regulation

    Dante Alighieri Disparte urges policymakers to take decisive action and set new rules for the industry in 2024.
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    Rached Ghannouchi’s Plight Deserves More Attention

    Abdullah Gül decries the prosecution and imprisonment of Tunisia's widely respected avatar of Islamic democracy.
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    WTO Reform Is Everyone’s Responsibility

    Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala writes that meaningful change will come only when members other than the US help steer the organization.

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