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Yanis Varoufakis: Time for Change - How I Explain the Economy to My Daughter.

Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist. He was elected to the Greek Parliament for SYRIZA in the 2015 general election and served as Finance Minister in the Alexis Tsipras cabinet from January 27 to July 6, 2015.

Yanis Varoufakis Topic Selection

- The future of the European Monetary Union
- The European crisis and its global context
- The anatomy of economic liberalism
- Digitalization of financial and money markets
- LET's FACE IT - A call to Action on Globalization 4.0
- An Inconvenient Truth: The Future of Europe, USA and China

After graduating from a private school in Athens, Yanis Varoufakis (born 1961) studied economic mathematics at the University of Essex and mathematical statistics at the University of Birmingham. He taught at Essex for two years from 1983 and received his PhD in economics there in 1987. From 1986 to 1988 he is a fellow and lecturer at the University of Cambridge and also lectures at the Universities of East Anglia, Glasgow and Sydney before being appointed Professor of Economics at the National and Kapodistrias University of Athens in September 2000. From March 2012, he works first as an economist and analyst for a year and then as a consultant for the software developer Valve Corporation. In 2013, he returned to teaching and went to Austin as a visiting professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas.

Time for Change - How I Explain the Economy to My Daughter.

From 2007 onward, in addition to his activities at the University of Athens, Varoufakis is primarily concerned with the global financial crisis that became the trigger for the Greek sovereign debt crisis. Varoufakis also follows political events in Greece from the United States and reports on them in articles for the New York Times and Boston Review, among others. He is internationally known for his book The Global Minotaur, which has been translated into six languages, about the origins of the financial crisis. As an expert, Varoufakis gives increasingly frequent interviews on the global economic and euro crises on national and international television (e.g., on the BBC, CNN, Sky News, RT, and Bloomberg TV) and in the press, thus becoming a public figure.

In 2015, he runs for the parliamentary election in the Athens B constituency and is elected to the Greek Parliament as the deputy with the most votes in that election, with 135,638 votes. On January 27, 2015, Alexis Tsipras, who had been sworn in as prime minister the day before, appoints Varoufakis as finance minister in his cabinet, responsible among other things for negotiations with eurozone partners.

"Minister no more" - On July 6, 2015, Yanis Varoufakis resigns after the referendum in Greece.

At the beginning of 2016, Varoufakis launches "Democracy in Europe 2025 - DiEM 25″, a European democracy movement. As chairman of MeRA25, the new progressive party of DiEM25 in Greece, he has been back in the Greek parliament since July 2019.

After a sabbatical of about two years, he resumed teaching at the University of Athens in spring 2017. He has also been an honorary doctor of the University of Sussex since July 2017.

Yanis Varoufakis's non-conformist manner provides plenty to talk about. He expresses his profound economic knowledge clearly and sometimes uncomfortably, which has not always earned him only praise in media coverage.

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