Yanis Varoufakis
Select articles by Yanis Varoufakis, a prestigious economist who heads the Department of Economic Policy at the University of Athens. From 2004 to 2007 Varoufakis served economic adviser to George Papandreou. Author of several books on Game Theory, Varoufakis is also a recognized speaker and often appears as guest analyst for news media like the BBC, Russia Today and Bloomberg TV among others. Truman Factor features Varoufakis’ articles in English and in Spanish.
If Scotland, why not Greece?
Why an independent Scotland should get out of sterling, but Greece should not volunteer to exit the Eurozone…
Lest we forget: The neglected roots of Europe’s slide to authoritarianism
A multitude of evils can hide behind the ideological veil of top-down European integration.…
Are Ireland and Portugal out of the woods?
Is there any justification in saying that these two countries are closer today to exiting their ward-of-the-troika status than they were last July, before Mr Draghi’s pronouncement that he will do all it takes to save the Eurozone?…
On the sad algebra of the Greek Debt Buyback
At the end of the day, tens of billions of fresh loan tranches will have authored another nasty act in the cruel theatre of horrors that is the Greek bailout.…
The Eurozone after the November Eurogroup ‘Greek Deal’: The state of (current) play
The repercussions of this short-sighted agreement are grave not only for Greece but for the Eurozone, and indeed the European Union, more broadly.…
The Latin Troika’s Coup: what is left of the joy it generated a week later
In a sense, the Latin troika secured an agreement that may be confirmed in the total breach rather than the implementation.…
Greek Election Result: An assessment
Europe may have got its wish this weekend. Soon, however, it will be reminded, yet again, that the most vengeful god is the one who grants such wishes.…
Solidarity Euro-Style
I would like to call upon northern European governments to cease and desist from more ‘solidarity’ offerings to our fiscally-stricken, fast impoverishing nations.…
A one-word explanation on why the eurozone cannot inflate its way out of trouble: Spain!
In view of the deflation that is coming to the deficit countries, having German inflation rise above average is as inevitable as it is useless.…
[VIDEO] The Case for a European New Deal
Interview with CNN's Christian Amanpour on the the theme of Europe’s slow suicide by inane austerity.…
[VIDEO] The Future of Europe
Talk at the panel entitled "The Future of Europe" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET) Paradigm Lost Conference in Berlin.…
Greece’s PSI is Dead on Arrival
The Greek PSI was always an error in search of a rationale. It gave shadow banking a great new opportunity to profiteer at the expense of Greece and of Europe and escalated the latter’s crisis rather than help tame it.…
