Yanis Varoufakis: Another Now
- Date
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Fri 7 May 2021
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
- Venue
- Online
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 book confounds expectations of what the good society would look like and reveals the uncomfortable truth about our desire for a better world.
Chaired by Sara Hill, Programmer at Theatre Deli and Co founder of Opus Independents
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, since 2019, he is leading its parliamentary party in Greece's Parliament. He is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Athens.
"One of my few heroes. As long as people like Varoufakis are around, there still is hope" - Slavoj Zizek
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