Austerity
VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he became the finance minister of Greece. In this rousing book, he charts the absurdities that underpin calls for austerity, as well as his own battles with a bureaucracy bent on ignoring the human cost of its every action. Passionately outspoken and tuned to the voices of the oppressed, Varoufakis presents a guide to modern economics, and its threat to democracy, like no other. Selected from the books And the Weak Suffer What They Must?and Adults in the Room
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cenk karagören@cenkk
“Nothing prepares a people for authoritarianism better than defeat followed closely by national humiliation and an economic implosion. Germany’s defeat in the Great War and its submission to the Versailles Treaty, coupled with the middle class’s economic calamity a little later, played a well- documented role in the rise of the Nazis. Greece suffered a comparable defeat and humiliation in 1922 at the hands of Mustafa Kemal as a result of its own goverment’s hubris.”
Ricky Burgess@rrricky