Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: Or, How Capitalism Works- and How It Fails

Varoufakis, Yanis/ Moe, Jacob (Translator)/ Varoufakis, Yanis (Translator)

ISBN 10: 0374272360 / ISBN 13: 9780374272364

Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2018

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224 pages. 8.00x5.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: Or, How Capitalism Works- and How It Fails
• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374272360
• ISBN 13: 9780374272364
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.3 kilograms

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Synopsis

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption of world economics.

Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of nations, assemblies of experts, and countless students around the world. Now, he faces his most important―and difficult―audience yet. Using clear language and vivid examples, Varoufakis offers a series of letters to his young daughter about the economy: how it operates, where it came from, how it benefits some while impoverishing others. Taking bankers and politicians to task, he explains the historical origins of inequality among and within nations, questions the pervasive notion that everything has its price, and shows why economic instability is a chronic risk. Finally, he discusses the inability of market-driven policies to address the rapidly declining health of the planet his daughter’s generation stands to inherit.

Throughout, Varoufakis wears his expertise lightly. He writes as a parent whose aim is to instruct his daughter on the fundamental questions of our age―and through that knowledge, to equip her against the failures and obfuscations of our current system and point the way toward a more democratic alternative.

About the Author

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.