Yanis Varoufakis
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As 2011 is drawing to a close, with the ECB only having managed to paper over the deepening cracks of the eurozone, it is time to allow ourselves to abandon the barricades for ten days or so. If the soldiers in the Great War’s killing fields could maintain a humane ceasefire, tend to the wounded, and bury their dead, we too can afford to put a cap for a while on our hectic rythm. Anyhow, the Crisis will be back with hideous vengeance soon after the New Year.
Ending 2011 with a fable for our times « Yanis Varoufakis
Greece’s foreign debt was 399 BN EUR by mid-2011. It was composed of 174 BN EUR in the central government; 208 BN EUR in the banking sector and 17 BN EUR in other sectors.
How Greece could build up so much foreign debt - a purely fictional short story
In this remarkable short story, Klaus Kastner (Kleingut) offers a fictionalised account of how Europe’s banks channelled billions to their Greek counter parties. It makes for excellent cross reading with my recent take on the Ant and the Grasshopper fable . [Click here for Klaus’ original post.)
The race to lend Greece: A short story by Klaus Kastner « Yanis Varoufakis
This review is from: The Global Minotaur: America, The True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy (Economic Controversies) (Paperback)
The Global Minotaur: America, The True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy (Economic Controversies) (9781780320144): Yanis Varoufakis: Books
The Global Minotaur | Zed Books
In this remarkable and provocative book, Yanis Varoufakis explodes the myth that financialisation, ineffectual regulation of banks, greed and globalisation were the root causes of the global economic crisis.
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS | The Great Shock
It’s almost three years since the bubble burst. If understanding really does abhor a vacuum, something about why it happened ought to have been learned.
Y. Varoufakis posts on The Global Minotaur