Name: And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
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Author: Yanis Varoufakis
ISBN: 9781568585994

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And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future

Type

Physical Book

Author

Yanis Varoufakis

Publisher

Bold Type Books

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x14.7x2.3 cm

Weight

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9781568585994

Synopsis "And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future"

A #1 Sunday Times bestseller [UK] A titanic battle is being waged for Europe's integrity and soul, with the forces of reason and humanism losing out to growing irrationality, authoritarianism, and malice, promoting inequality and austerity. The whole world has a stake in a victory for rationality, liberty, democracy, and humanism. In January 2015, Yanis Varoufakis, an economics professor teaching in Austin, Texas, was elected to the Greek parliament with more votes than any other member of parliament. He was appointed finance minister and, in the whirlwind five months that followed, everything he had warned about-the perils of the euro's faulty design, the European Union's shortsighted austerity policies, financialized crony capitalism, American complicity and rising authoritarianism-was confirmed as the troika (the European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund, and European Commission) stonewalled his efforts to resolve Greece's economic crisis. Here, Varoufakis delivers a fresh look at the history of Europe's crisis and America's central role in it. He presents the ultimate case against austerity, proposing concrete policies for Europe that are necessary to address its crisis and avert contagion to America, China, and the rest of the world. With passionate, informative, and at times humorous prose, he warns that the implosion of an admittedly crisis-ridden and deeply irrational European monetary union should, and can, be avoided at all cost.

Yanis Varoufakis

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Yanis Varoufakis is an essayist, activist, lecturer, and Greco-Australian politician considered the world's best-selling economist. A reputed academic, he was educated at the universities of Essex and Birmingham, has served as a professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, and currently teaches at the University of Athens.

He rose to fame in 2015 when, as the Minister of Finance of Greece, he confronted the eurozone countries over the Greek debt crisis. He recounted this fight against the troika in his autobiography Adults in the Room, published by Deusto in 2017 and named by The Guardian as "one of the 100 best books of the 21st century". He has published other bestsellers such as And the Weak Suffer What They Must? (Deusto, 2016), Another Now (Deusto, 2021), and is also the author of The Global Minotaur (Captain Swing, 2012) and Talking to My Daughter About the Economy (Destino, 2015).

Co-founder of the international movement DiEM25 and the Progressive International along with Bernie Sanders, he is a regular contributor to international media such as The Guardian. Business Insider considers him "the most interesting man in the world".

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