Global Minotaur
Global Minotaur In this provocative book, Yanis Varoufakis--the fiery former finance minister in Greek's new Syriza-led government--explodes the myth that financialization, ineffective regulation of…
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Global Minotaur
In this provocative book, Yanis Varoufakis--the fiery former finance minister in Greek's new Syriza-led government--explodes the myth that financialization, ineffective regulation of banks, and generalized greed and globalization were the root causes of the global economic crisis. Today's deepening crisis in Europe, Varoufakis shows, is just one of the inevitable signs of the weakening Minotaur--of a global system that is now as unsustainable as it is unbalanced. Rather, he shows, they are symptoms of a much deeper malaise, one that can be traced all the way back to the Great Depression, then through the stagflation of the 1970s, when a "Global Minotaur" was born.
Rather than simply diagnose a problem, however, Varoufakis also offers a solution, a program for introducing reason into what has become a perniciously irrational economic order.An essential, powerfully polemical