Posts By: Yanis Varoufakis

Economics is irredeemably sexist

Opinion

8.03.2024

One reason women avoid the field of economics is the male chauvinist pig standing at its centre, masquerading as the model of rationality. No ...

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Are we transitioning from capitalism to Silicon serfdom?

20.02.2024

Jacobin’s David Moscrop recently talked to Yanis Varoufakis about  techno-feudalism, as well as the rise of cloud capital, the implications of ...

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The two faces of the Euro

Opinion

7.02.2024

Of all European politicians who never led their countries, Jacques Delors and Wolfgang Schäuble had the greatest impact on Europe

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What is the point of NATO?

Opinion

3.01.2024

Membership is no guarantee of democracy

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Europe’s 15-year slump

Opinion

22.11.2023

Europe is languishing in a long-term economic slump whose origins lay in Wall Street’s near-death experience in 2008

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Yanis Varoufakis answers FAQs on Israel-Palestine

20.11.2023

I answer a number of questions I am frequently asked by friends and critics on the Israeli-Palestinian issue

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The big idea: Has the digital economy killed capitalism?

Opinion

15.11.2023

Rather than turbo-charging the free market, Amazon et al have brought back a kind of feudalism

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Capitalism is dead: Long live Technofeudalism

Opinion

27.09.2023

We have returned to our former status as serfs, contributing to the wealth and power of the new ruling class with our unpaid labour

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Europe’s fading democracy

Opinion

14.09.2023

In recent years, three developments have all but destroyed the idea of the EU as an effective force for good within and beyond Europe

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