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Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis

Writing for PS since 2015
124 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. Technofeudalism Is War’s Handmaiden
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    Technofeudalism Is War’s Handmaiden

    Feb 6, 2025 Yanis Varoufakis explains how the rise of cloud capital is steering the world toward well-known strategic traps.

  2. China’s Trump Dilemma
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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Jan 21, 2025 Yanis Varoufakis thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.

  3. The West Is Not Dying, but It Is Working on It
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    The West Is Not Dying, but It Is Working on It

    Dec 19, 2024 Yanis Varoufakis argues that Western power is alive and well, but the lofty values that once sustained it have been abandoned.

  4. America’s Trade Deficit Is Not Afraid of Donald Trump
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    America’s Trade Deficit Is Not Afraid of Donald Trump

    Dec 2, 2024 Yanis Varoufakis shows why the incoming US administration can’t eliminate the negative balance – and wouldn’t even if it could.

  5. The Spirit of Brexit Has Infected the EU
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    The Spirit of Brexit Has Infected the EU

    Oct 31, 2024 Yanis Varoufakis asks why European leaders today sound like the British leaders they wanted to punish just a few years ago.

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    A Reformed WHO Should Make Its Case to America

    Gordon Brown wants to reassure the Trump administration that a revamped organization could serve US and global interests.
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    The Age of Multipolarization

    Tobias Bunde & Sophie Eisentraut think a better future depends on whether a world with more poles can find ways to mitigate dangerous divisions.
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    Will US Export Restrictions Work?

    Barry Eichengreen

    Perhaps US efforts to cut off China’s access to advanced semiconductors will be more successful than analogous restrictions on tech exports to France in the 1960s. But we now have at least one data point – DeepSeek – that suggests otherwise.

    questions the effectiveness of efforts to limit China’s access to advanced semiconductors.
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    Trump’s Trade War Is About More Than Trade

    Nancy Qian considers the domestic and global implications of the new US administration’s tariff policies.
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    What Is MAGAnomics?

    Antara Haldar tries to make sense of the new US administration's internally contradictory economic-policy program.
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    PS Events: AI Action Summit

    PS editors present the AI Action Summit event.
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    Europe Can and Must Resist Trump

    Zaki Laïdi explains how the European Union should respond to American imperial nationalism.
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    Bending the Arc of AI Development Toward Shared Progress

    Anne Bouverot outlines the French government's objectives for the AI Action Summit in Paris.
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    Developing Countries Need a New Approach to Long-Term Financing

    Hannah Wanjie Ryder & Kate Hampton propose reforms that would facilitate low-interest lending to fund critical climate and development goals.

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