Varoufakis: From an Economics without Capitalism to Markets without Capitalism

IN-DEPTH VIDEOS, 17 May 2021

Yanis Varoufakis | DiEM25 – TRANSCEND Media Service

A lecture organised by University of Tübingen economics students delivered on 3 Feb 2020. Mainstream economic models lack some important features of really-existing capitalism, including money, time and space. Its models offer ideological cover for a capitalist system that has usurped competitive, free markets. The result? Unbearable inequality, climate catastrophe and permanent stagnation. A fork on the road is approaching: It will take us either into deeper stagnation and environmental degradation or to a society with markets but no capitalism.

Prof. Yanis Varoufakis talks about the future of our economy and the current state of economics with special regard to pluralism in economics.

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Yanis Varoufakis, a former finance minister of Greece, is leader of the MeRA25 Party, professor of economics at the University of Athens, and co-founder of DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement). His latest book is And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe’s Crisis and America’s Economic Future.


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