The Origins of the European & Global Economic Crisis – on acTVism Munich
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Do they really want your money back? op-ed in Bild Zeitung
Se respiran aires del DiEM25: algunas claves sobre el movimiento
Ya se pueden respirar aires del DiEM25. Nuestra página web (http://diem25.org/) ya ha hecho su primera aparición, y nuestras cuentas en Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/diem25.official.page/) y en Twitter (https://twitter.com/DiEM25_ES) ya se encuentran activas.
El manifiesto del DiEM será publicado en los próximos días, y nuestra presencia online estará a punto para la fecha de nuestro lanzamiento, el próximo 9 de febrero. Mientras nos acercamos a la noche del evento fundacional en el teatro Volksbühne de Berlín, ofrecemos a continuación algunas respuestas a preguntas que nos han estado formulado de toda Europa. Continue reading
A tu per tu con Varoufakis, senza peli sulla lingua (sull’Europa e non solo) -Marcello Foa, Il Giornale
Origina source: http://blog.ilgiornale.it/foa/2016/02/01/a-tu-per-tu-con-varoufakis/
Visto da vicino, Yanis Varoufakis convince. Ho avuto il privilegio di intervistarlo pubblicamente a Lugano e poi di trascorrere alcune ore assieme a lui. E mi ha fatto un’eccellente impressione. Mi verrebbe dire che è un greco tutto d’un pezzo, uno spirito libero, capace di rompere gli schemi e di andare oltre le barriere ideologiche. Varoufakis ha presieduto il ministero delle Finanze di Atene per cinque mesi, durante i quali ha lasciato il segno. Continue reading
DiEM25 is in the air – a preliminary Q&A
DiEM25 is, indeed, in the air. Our website (www.diem25.org) has made its first appearance on the airwaves, as have our Facebook and Twitter (@diem_25) pages.
DiEM’s Manifesto will appear in the next few days and our webpages will ‘mature’ into a fully fledged website by our launch date – the 9th of February. While waiting for the Volksbuehne Theatre event of that night, here is a brief Q&A, answering some of the questions we have been receiving from all over Europe. Continue reading
Why a pan-European democracy movement? Interviewed by Nick Buxton
Yanis Varoufakis speaks to Nick Buxton, and Red Pepper, about why a pan-European movement for democracy is necessary
Are we heading for a crash? The Guardian
Click here for The Guardian site or if you want to read the longer version of my entry… Continue reading
How the ‘Troika Effect’ was dubbed the ‘Varoufakis Effect’ – Project Syndicate Op-Ed and beyond
As part of an impressive campaign to discredit the Athens Spring, and those of us who continue to honour and propagate its spirit, a cabal of journalists and ‘analysts’ have joined forces to depict me as the “destroyer of the Greek economy.” The purpose? To demonise the Greek people’s audacity to elect us with a mandate to oppose the Troika in the Spring and early summer of 2015, when they backed our stance with that magnificent 62% NO vote.
Their hideous campaign was summed up recently in the so called ‘Varoufakis Effect’ argument, by Berenberg’s Chief Economist, a Mr Schmieding. Using a chart that ‘shows’ business confidence to have collapsed during the days of my tenure in the ministry of finance (first half of 2015), he pinned on me Greece’s woes. Naturally, the troika’s Greek cheerleaders, with newspaper TO VIMA at the forefront, grabbed the opportunity to jeer and snarl. Except that they were caught with the smoking gun in their hands… Continue reading
Capitalism vs Democracy vs Capitalism: My TED Global Talk
How Do the Economic Elites Get the Idea That They ‘Deserve’ More?
Evonomics (The next evolution in economics) is a new site trying valiantly to infuse economics debates with relevance, sense and sensibility. Here they retrieved a paper that I published, together with Shaun Hargreaves-Heap, in The Economic Journal. Below you will find my summary of findings from a fascinating and intriguing laboratory experiment that has many implications for the distribution of social power and the beliefs that support it. For the Evonomics site click here or…
On Podemos, Greece and DiEM – Interview in El Mundo
For the El Mundo site (in Spanish), click here. To read my original English language responses… Continue reading
On the need to democratise Europe – Real News Network
In conversation with Gerardo Pisarello on democracy, Europe and municipalism
Gerardo Pisarello, Barcelona’s First Deputy Mayor, posing crucial questions on the state of capitalism, whether democracy has room to breathe nowadays, the need for a pan-European movement, the place of City Halls and municipalism in such a movement…
Our movement to democratise Europe & developments in Latin America and China – Interview with Brazil’s GLOBO TV
Recently I was interviewed by Brazil’s Globo TV. The extensive interview covered a large number of issues – from the European crisis and our fledgling movement to democratise the European Union (to be launched on 9th February in Berlin – WATCH THIS SPACE!), to the Middle East, the global economy, Brazil, the rest of Latin America and its economic reliance on a slowing China. The English language transcript follows: Continue reading
The Labour Party’s 2016 NEW ECONOMICS lecture series: Mazzucato, Stiglitz, Varoufakis, Ha-Joon Chang et al
The UK’s Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, is convening a series of public lectures to broaden the debate around economics in Britain.
DiEM and the movements – Reply to Open Letter by John Malamatinas
The news is out: DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe – Movement) will be launched in Berlin on 9th February, at the Volksbuehne Theatre in Berlin (pictured above). Before the official announcement and the manifesto saw the light of day, DiEM25 has attracted attention all over Europe. A few days ago, John Malamatinas, wrote an open letter addressed to me regarding DiEM25 in Neues Deutschland. Click here for the original German version and here for an English translation. For my reply to John’s open letter… Continue reading
Europe under construction: Tonight in Munich, with Christian Ude
Greece’s two currencies – Project Syndicate Op-Ed
ATHENS – Imagine a depositor in the US state of Arizona being permitted to withdraw only small amounts of cash weekly and facing restrictions on how much money he or she could wire to a bank account in California. Such capital controls, if they ever came about, would spell the end of the dollar as a single currency, because such constraints are utterly incompatible with a monetary union. Greece today (and Cyprus before it) offers a case study of how capital controls bifurcate a currency and distort business incentives. The process is straightforward. Once euro deposits are imprisoned within a national banking system, the currency essentially splits in two: bank euros (BE) and paper, or free, euros (FE). Suddenly, an informal exchange rate between the two currencies emerges. Read more here
Jacobin’s Illustrated Interview – Europeans seem ready for a new kind of politics
Jacobin Magazine honoured me with the publication of an interview that I gave to Francisco de Zarate, journalist and comic writer with the Argentine newspaper Clarin, and illustrated by Fernando Calvi. Thank you Francisco, Fernando and Jacobin. Click here for Jacobin’s site
United European democrats we stand. Divided we fall. El Diario interview with Luis Martin
For the El Diario site click here. For the original English language version of the interview… Continue reading
