Name: The Future of Capitalism: Katrina Vanden Heuvel and Yanis Varoufakis vs. Arthur Brooks and David Brooks (The Monk Debates)
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Author: Yanis Varoufakis
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The Future of Capitalism: Katrina Vanden Heuvel and Yanis Varoufakis vs. Arthur Brooks and David Brooks (The Monk Debates)

Type

Physical Book

Contributions by

Yanis Varoufakis

Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Arthur Brooks

Publisher

House of Anansi Press

Author

Yanis Varoufakis

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

144

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1x12.4x1.3 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN13

9781487007430

Synopsis "The Future of Capitalism: Katrina Vanden Heuvel and Yanis Varoufakis vs. Arthur Brooks and David Brooks (The Monk Debates) "

The twenty-fifth semi-annual Munk Debate, held on December 4, 2019, pits editorial director and publisher of the Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis against Harvard professor Arthur Brooks and New York Times columnist David Brooks to debate whether the capitalist system is broken."We need to organise politically to defend the weak, empower the many, and prepare the ground for reversing the absurdities of capitalism." -- Yanis VaroufakisIn Western societies, the capitalist system is facing a level of distrust not seen in decades. Economic inequality is rampant. Life expectancy is falling. The environment is being destroyed for profit. Political power is wielded by wealthy elites and big business. For capitalism's critics, it is clear that the system is not designed to help average people. Their solution is a top-to-bottom reform of the "free market" along more socialist and democratic lines. For proponents of capitalism, however, this system has been the greatest engine of economic and social progress in history. Not only has capitalism made all of us materially better off, its ideals are responsible for everything from women's rights to a cleaner environment to political freedoms. The answer to society's current ills is more capitalism, more economic freedom, and more free markets.The twenty-fifth semi-annual Munk Debate, held on December 4, 2019, pits editorial director and publisher of the Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis against Harvard professor Arthur Brooks and New York Times columnist David Brooks to debate whether the capitalist system is broken.

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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