Showing posts with label Yanis Varoufakis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yanis Varoufakis. Show all posts
Thursday, 22 December 2016
Greece’s Perpetual Crisis (Yanis Varoufakis, Project-Syndicate)
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/perpetual-greek-debt-crisis-by-yanis-varoufakis-2016-12
Tuesday, 29 November 2016
Thursday, 29 September 2016
Apple, Brussels, and Ireland’s Bruised Sovereignty (Yanis Varoufakis, Project-Syndicate)
Despite their unequivocal Europeanism, the Irish have been serially mistreated by the European Union.
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
The ECB’s Illusory Independence (Yanis Varoufakis, Project-Syndicate)
A commitment to the independence of central banks is a vital part of the creed that “serious” policymakers are expected to uphold (privatization, labor-market “flexibility,” and so on). But what are central banks meant to be independent of? The answer seems obvious: governments
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/europe-least-independent-central-bank-by-yanis-varoufakis-2016-06
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/europe-least-independent-central-bank-by-yanis-varoufakis-2016-06
Thursday, 5 May 2016
Imagining a New Bretton Woods (Yanis Varoufakis, Project-Syndicate)
The financial meltdown of 2008 prompted calls for a global financial system that curtails trade imbalances, moderates speculative capital flows, and prevents systemic contagion. That, of course, was the goal of the original Bretton Woods system. But such a system today would be both untenable and undesirable. So, what might an alternative look like?
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/imagining-new-bretton-woods-by-yanis-varoufakis-2016-05
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/imagining-new-bretton-woods-by-yanis-varoufakis-2016-05
Wednesday, 16 March 2016
Lies, Damn Lies, and European Growth Statistics (Yanis Varoufakis, Project-Syndicate)
“Greece has at last returned to economic growth.” That was the official European Union storyline at the end of 2014. Alas, Greek voters, unimpressed by this rejoicing, ousted the incumbent government and, in January 2015, voted for a new administration in which I served as finance minister.
Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Democracy or Bust in Europe (Yanis Varoufakis, Project-Syndicate)
“Europe will be democratized or it will disintegrate!” That maxim is more than a catchphrase from the manifesto of the Democracy in Europe Movement – DiEM25, the group I just helped to launch in Berlin. It is a simple, if under-acknowledged fact.
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Friday, 8 January 2016
Tuesday, 28 July 2015
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