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The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy
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'The emerging rock-star of Europe's anti-austerity uprising.'
Daily Telegraph

'A spirited book.' New Yorker
In this remarkable and provocative book, Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, explodes the myth that financialisation, ineffectual regulation of banks, greed and globalisation were the root causes of both the Eurozone crisis and the global economic crisis. Rather, they are symptoms of a much deeper malaise which can be traced all the way back to the Great Crash of 1929, then on through to the 1970s: the time when a Global Minotaur was born.

Today's deepening crisis in Europe is just one of the inevitable symptoms of the weakening Minotaur; of a global system which is now as unsustainable as it is imbalanced. Going beyond this, Varoufakis reveals how we might reintroduce a modicum of reason into what has become a perniciously irrational economic order.

An essential account of the socio-economic events and hidden histories that have shaped the world as we now know it.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherZed Books
Release dateJul 5, 2015
ISBN9781783606122
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The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy
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Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis is the former finance minister of Greece and the co-founder of an international grassroots movement, DiEM25, campaigning for the revival of democracy in Europe. He is the author of And the Weak Suffer What They Must? and The Global Minotaur. After many years teaching in the United States, Britain, and Australia, he is currently professor of economics at the University of Athens.

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    Great read. It is necessary to understand how Greece got into the position they are in now. This predicament dates back to the 1960's or, arguably, their independence from Turkish occupation. The reality is a country without a sufficient national economy to support their national consumption *will* lose their national identity.

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