Anyone who cannot explain difficult concepts in simple words to young people simply does not understand them well enough themselves. This book therefore strives to present a narrative about the economy that the author's daughter would not find boring and which also explains two things: how our modern world came to be and why the theories of economists are part of the problems – and not the solutions – that this world generates.
It poses and answers provocative questions, such as:
- When and how did the primacy of profit emerge?
- Why would there never be wealth without debt?
- Where does the outrageous power of bankers come from?
- What lies behind economic crises?
- Is there hope for humanity to stop functioning as a foolish virus that kills the organism it lives in?
- What is money and why does it "need" democracy?
Although it does not focus on the Greek everyday life of the last, tragic years, the book addresses the big issues of social economy that affect all people everywhere, but in a way that one can use to view the recent collapse of the Greek economy from a different perspective, as well as the reasons why those in power stubbornly refuse to make the decisions that would bring salvation to our societies in Europe, in Greece, and in the world at large.
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Specifications
- Author
- Gianis Varoufakis
- Publisher
- Patakis
- Language
- Greek
- Subtitle
- A brief account of capitalism
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 216
- Release Date
- 6/2021
- Publication Date
- 2021
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789601697833
Book Type
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)
- No
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