The emerging rock star of anti-austerity in Europe. Daily Telegraph

A witty book. New Yorker

In this remarkable and provocative book, Yanis Varoufakis, former Finance Minister of Greece, explodes the myth that financialization, ineffective bank regulation, greed, and globalization were the roots of the Eurozone and global economic crises. Instead, they are symptoms of a much deeper malaise that can be traced back to the Great Depression of 1929 and through the 1970s: the era when the Global Minotaur was born.

The today's worsening crisis in Europe is merely one of the inevitable symptoms of the Minotaur's weakening. It is a global system that is now as unsustainable as it is unbalanced.

Going beyond this, Varoufakis reveals how we can reintroduce a dose of reason into what has become a malignantly irrational economic order. An essential account of the socioeconomic facts and hidden stories that have shaped the world as we know it now.