About the Author

Yanis Varoufakis is the former finance minister of Greece and the author of a memoir, Adults in the Room, and a history, And the Weak Suffer What They Must?, which reveal and explain the catastrophic mishandling of Europe since the financial crisis. Both were number one bestsellers. His latest bestseller is Talking To My Daughter About the Economy- A Brief History of Capitalism. Born in Athens in 1961, Yanis Varoufakis was for many years a professor of economics in Britain, Australia and the USA before he entered government and is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Athens. Since resigning from Greece's finance ministry he has co-founded an international grassroots movement, DiEM25, campaigning for the revival of democracy in Europe and speaks to audiences of thousands worldwide.

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Reviews

A book for anybody who wants to understand the mess we're in - and since we're all in this mess, that makes it a book for everybody
*SLAVOJ ZIZEK*

With superb storytelling, Varoufakis shows how capitalism has eaten itself alive, mutating into an entirely different and more dangerous beast, and calls on us to free ourselves from digital serfdom
*BRETT SCOTT, author of Cloudmoney*

Provocative and accessible, this is sure to be a key touchstone in debates about the future of the global economy
*NICK SRNICEK, co-author of Inventing the Future*

Compulsive and necessary reading
*KEN LOACH*

What if capitalism died and no one noticed - not even the capitalists? Digital platforms usurped capitalism and installed something far worse. This book is an urgent demand to seize the means of computation
*CORY DOCTOROW*