Yanis Varoufakis: The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN recommends it as a narrative of a century of political economy and the geopolitics behind the 2008 crash.
What it is
Yanis Varoufakis talks at a festival in Zagreb about his book The Global Minotaur. He argues the postwar global economy and the 2008 crisis stem from deeper structural causes than greed or weak regulation.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2015 to 2015.
What Hacker News said
Recommends taliesinb · 2015-04 · on “Varoufakis and Stiglitz [video]”
Other Varoufakis videos that are worth watching if you want to know more about him and his views: * "The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy " -- about his book, a nice narrative of the last 100 years of the political economy -- [this video] * Richard D. Wolf's Global Capitalism update featuring Varoufakis -- Richard D. Wolf is always fun to watch, he looks like a Marxist version of Homeland's Saul Berenson -- [LINK] * "Confessions of an Errant Marxist" -- sort of Varoufakis's origin story -- [LINK] * Bizarre BBC Newsnight interview with Varoufakis -- where you can see the BBC's idealogical function leaking through -- [LINK] It's evident from watching these that
Recommends nisa · 2015-07 · on “Minister No More”
He gave 2 talks a few years ago that are well worth a watch - he talks briefly about the abuse of mathematics in certain parts of academic economy, cites a Star Trek Voyager episode and other interesting things: [LINK] [this video]
Recommends platz · 2015-08 · on “U.S. Paychecks Grow at Record-Slow Pace”
I enjoyed this video in which Yanis Varoufakis explains some geopolitical macro economics during the post WWII and cold war era, why the crash/recovery of 2008 is mutating into different forms. [this video] The U.S. had to be very creative in order maintain power when they no longer had any economic surpluses (surpluses which greatly diminished from wars like Vietnam).