Talking to my daughter about the economy or, how capitalism works-- and how it fails

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Yanis Varoufakis
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Talking to my daughter about the economy or, how capitalism works-- and how it fails

First American edition.
  • 4.00 ·
  • 4 Ratings
  • 30 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 8 Have read

In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption of world economics. Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of nations, assemblies of experts, and countless students around the world. Now, he faces his most important and difficult audience yet. Using clear language and vivid examples, Varoufakis offers a series of letters to his young daughter about the economy: how it operates, where it came from, how it benefits some while impoverishing others. Taking bankers and politicians to task, he explains the historical origins of inequality among and within nations, questions the pervasive notion that everything has its price, and shows why economic instability is a chronic risk. Finally, he discusses the inability of market-driven policies to address the rapidly declining health of the planet his daughters generation stands to inherit. Throughout, Varoufakis wears his expertise lightly. He writes as a parent whose aim is to instruct his daughter on the fundamental questions of our age and through that knowledge, to equip her against the failures and obfuscations of our current system and point the way toward a more democratic alternative.

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Pages
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Cover of: Talking to My Daughter about the Economy
Talking to My Daughter about the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism
2019, Penguin Random House, RANDOM HOUSE UK
in English
Cover of: Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works--and How It Fails
May 21, 2019, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Cover of: Talking to My Daughter about the Economy
Cover of: Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works--and How It Fails
May 08, 2018, Macmillan Audio
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Cover of: Talking to my daughter about the economy or, how capitalism works-- and how it fails
Cover of: Talking to My Daughter about the Economy
Talking to My Daughter about the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism
Oct 01, 2018, Bodley Head
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Cover of: Talking to My Daughter about the Economy
Talking to My Daughter about the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism
2017, Penguin Random House
in English

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Table of Contents

Why so much inequality?
The birth of the market society
The marriage of debt and profit
The black magic of banking
Two Oedipal markets
Haunted machines
The dangerous fantasy of apolitical money
Stupid viruses?
Epilogue.

Edition Notes

"Originally published in Greek in 2013 by Patakis Publishers, Greece. English translation originally published in 2017 by The Bodley Head, Great Britain as "Talking to my daughter about the economy: a brief history of capitalism"--Title page verso.

Includes index.

Other Titles
How capitalism works-- and how it fails

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Dewey Decimal Class
330
Library of Congress
HB171.5 .V387 2018, HB171.5.V387 2018

The Physical Object

Pagination
209 pages
Number of pages
209

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26958441M
ISBN 10
0374272360
ISBN 13
9780374272364
LCCN
2017054137
OCLC/WorldCat
1025401061

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