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The capitalism alternative in ANOTHER NOW – BBC World Service Business Daily...
With Covid rampaging and many economies on life-support, some say we need to look beyond capitalism. A blue-sky thinker, the outspoken former Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, gives his...
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Invited by Ian McMillan, along with a poet and an archaeologist, to discuss...
What might a zero-growth world mean for writers? The Verb offers this provocation to this week’s guests, and asks how poets in particular can adjust to a world economy that’s changing rapidly under...
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On CHANGE MAKERS discussing personal drive, happiness, capitalism, socialism...
Our guest today on Change Makers is former finance minister of Greece, economist and author, Yanis Varoufakis. His view on the current world order may be critical, but this is as much a story of...
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Why I oppose vaccination passports – On BBC World Service’s NEWSDAY
Greece says there's a case for a Covid vaccine passport which would allow people to travel freely within the EU. But @yanisvaroufakis is concerned it could encourage governments – and businesses – to...
View ArticleDiscussing books by Atwood, Balchain & Reid with Harriet Gilbert & Patrick...
In this episode of Radio 4’s THE GOOD READ, I found myself choosing Margaret Atwood’s treatise on debt (Payback: Debt & The Shadow Side of Wealth) for discussion with presenter Harriet Gilbert and...
View ArticleRemembering Mikis Theodorakis – BBC Radio 4, The World Tonight
My first inkling that his music was significant was when my parents warned me – I must have been 6 or 7 yrs old – that merely whistling a Theodorakis tune was an arrestable offence – such was the fear...
View ArticleHypatia: my choice of a great life to re-visit and celebrate – on BBC Radio...
When I was still in primary school, I sought my mum’s help in countering a friend’s bigoted assertion that “women are useless”, which he had based on the fact that our teachers never mentioned a single...
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ANOTHER NOW – Interviewed by Radio New Zealand
A well-known critic of the neoliberal world order, economist Yanis Varoufakis believes capitalism has become ‘techno-feudalism’ – with tech companies and Covid making the rich even richer and the poor...
View ArticleWith Phillip Adams on Late Night Live (ABC RN) talking about the hollow...
End of the year, yes, a perfect time to look back to 2021 and its betrayed, hollow promises. Here, on ABC Radio National’s Late Night Live, I am chatting with Phillip Adams (DiEM25’s honorary member)...
View ArticleGreek government’s market fundamentalism undermines Greece’s vaccination...
As of today, unvaccinated older Greeks (60+) will forfeit 100 euros each month. Market fundamentalism is pushing the Mitsotakis government to adopt a measure that undermines its own vaccination drive....
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The roots of inflation in the Crash of 2008 – interviewed by Mick Jeserich...
For KPFA’s site, click here The post The roots of inflation in the Crash of 2008 – interviewed by Mick Jeserich for KPFA Radio Pacifica appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.
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Interviewed by Hugo Rifkind, for TIMES RADIO, on my TECHNOFEUDALISM
“We are voluntary servants.” Capitalism is over and ‘social democracy is finished’, says Yanis Varoufakis, economist, author and former Greek finance minister. He tells Hugo Rifkind what’s taking its...
View ArticleOn the causes and nature of Populism’s Surge – interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s...
Discussing the surge of ultra-rightist populism, where I argued it all started with the West’s response to the 2008 crash – just like after 1929. When $35 trillion was printed on behalf of financiers...
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My last waltz on Late Night Live with my friend, the wonderful, Phillip Adams...
On 11th March 2024, Phillip Adams invited me to LNL for one last time before he is due to retire. Bittersweet program where we talked about everything that intervened between our first ever encounter...
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