Talking to My Daughter about the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis

Talking to My Daughter about the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

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 daughter's 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.

Yanis Varoufakis is a Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Athens in Greece, where he presently resides after more than two decades of studying and teaching in the United Kingdom and Australia (where he had academic positions at the Universities of Sydney, Glasgow, Cambridge, and East Anglia, in that order). This is his debut book for a general audience. Rational Conflict (1991), Foundations of Economics (1998), and Game Theory: A Critical Text (2004) (with Shaun Hargreaves Heap).Yanis Varoufakis is Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Athens, Greece, where he presently lives after more than two decades of studying and teaching in the United Kingdom and Australia (where he had academic postings, in reverse order, at the University of Melbourne and the University of Sydney). This is his debut book for a general audience. Rational Conflict (1991), Foundations of Economics (1998), and Game Theory: A Critical Text (2004) (with Shaun Hargreaves Heap) are among his more scholarly works.