Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (607 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374101000 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 560 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Adults in the Room is an extraordinary tale of brinkmanship, hypocrisy, collusion, and betrayal that will shake the global establishment to its foundations.. Varoufakis’s unvarnished memoir is an urgent warning that the economic policies once embraced by the EU and the White House have failedand spawned authoritarianism, populist revolt, and instability throughout the Western world. But despite the mass support of the Greek people and the simple logic of Varoufakis’s arguments, he succeeds only in provoking the fury of Europe’s elite. Varoufakis’s new position sends him ricocheting between mass demonstrations in Athens, closed-door negotiations in drab EU and IMF offices,
To say it is the best memoir of the Eurozone crisis is an understatement. It is a devastating indictment of the current state of Europe and a fascinating inside account of the logic of reformist politics and its limits and why it keeps going anyway Varoufakis's account of the operations of EU 'decision-making' is truly shocking. As long as people like Varoufakis are around, there still is hope." Slavoj iek"A very, very clever person, and in the basic argument about what's been going on in Europe I think he's right." Martin Wolf"An outstanding economist and political analyst." Noam Chomsky"The most interesting man in the world." Business Insider"The Thucydides of our time." Jeffrey Sachs. "Varoufakis has written
Sprachprofi said A Work for the Ages!. "Adults in the Room" masterfully oscillates between the thrilling and the lyrical, the very personal and the universal, giving us a unique glimpse behind the high walls of power.This book will be uncomfortable or even dangerous for many current politicians, . Brilliant At last a truth teller.Yanis Varoufakis is a breath of fresh air revealing what goes on behind the wizards ragged curtain.. "Surprising peak into European decision making" according to wt. Well written and interesting. The Eurogroup meetings are described as a clash of bureaucrats. Varoufakis speaks a different language. The difference between the Eurogroup's public story and the underlying motivation is immense.I was surprised that Varoufakis
He is the author of And the Weak Suffer What They Must? and The Global Minotaur. . After teaching for many years in the United States, Britain, and Australia, he is currently a professor of economics at the University of Athens. Yanis Varoufakis is the former finance minister of Greece and the cofounder of an international grassroots movement, DiEM25, that is campaigning for the revival of democracy in Europe