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There is something exciting, even invigorating, about envisioning this world alongside Varoufakis ... one finishes Another Now buzzing with a sense of possibility, The MonthlyI am enjoying Yanis Varoufakis's Another Now. The way we live is not inevitable -- Jeannette WintersonAnother Now is not only a marvellously good read - it is a notable addition to the literature of social change, The WireThe reason Varoufakis seems to have captured the imaginations of so many is that his words about the European crisis speak universal truths about democracy, capitalism and social policy, GuardianOne of the most accurate and detailed descriptions of modern power ever written -- Paul Mason (on Adults in the Room)Superbly written ? he was ? and is ? right -- Martin Wolf (on Adults in the Room)An important, terrifying must-read ? Varoufakis has the greatest political virtues of all: courage and honesty, The Times (on Adults in the Room)Utterly accessibly, deeply humane and startlingly original -- Naomi Klein (on Talking to My Daughter)One of my few heroes -- Slavoj ZizekThe most interesting man in the world, Business Insider*A New Statesman Book to Read in 2020*Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No billionaires.Imagine if Occupy and Extinction Rebellion actually won.In Another Now world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis shows us what such a world would look like. Far from being a fantasy, he describes how it could have come about - and might yet. But would we really want it?Varoufakis's boundary-breaking new book confounds expectations of what the good society would look like and reveals the uncomfortable truth about our desire for a better world...This is the book to make you reconsider how we live and what we can change for the better this Christmas.Biografía del autor
Yanis Varoufakis is the author of the bestseller Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism and two previous books, Adults in the Room, a memoir of his time as finance minister of Greece, and an economic history of Europe, And the Weak Suffer What They Must?, both of which were number one bestsellers. Born in Athens in 1961, Yanis Varoufakis was for many years a professor of economics in Britain, Australia and the USA before he entered politics. He is co-founder of the international grassroots movement, DiEM25, and in 2019 won election as one of its representatives in the Greek Parliament. He is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Athens.yanisvaroufakis.eu / @yanisvaroufakis
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Autor/es Varoufakis, Yanis
- ISBN13 9781847925633
- ISBN10 1847925634
- Páginas 235
- Año de Edición 2020
- Idioma Inglés
Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present
- Yanis Varoufakis
- ISBN 9781847925633