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Yanis Varoufakis Talking to My Daughter About the Economy (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Talking to My Daughter about the Economy : Or, How Capitalism Works-And How It Fails
- Publication Name
- Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
- Title
- Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
- Translator
- Jacob Moe
- Contributor
- Yanis Varoufakis (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0374538492
- EAN
- 9780374538491
- ISBN
- 9780374538491
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Genre
- Social Science
- Topic
- Social Classes & Economic Disparity
- Release Date
- 21/05/2019
- Release Year
- 2019
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 7.4in
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Item Weight
- 5.3 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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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.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374538492
ISBN-13
9780374538491
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7038300899
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Book Title
Talking to My Daughter about the Economy : Or, How Capitalism Works-And How It Fails
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Social Classes & Economic Disparity
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Social Science
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.4in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
5.3 Oz
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Best Book of 2018 (so far), Business & Leadership "Charming and utterly fascinating . . . It's a sharp analysis mixed with philosophical rumination told in a breezy mix of family anecdotes, Greek myth, world history and a surprisingly deep dive into the hidden meanings embedded in Star Trek and The Matrix . . . It's a book for everyone. Varoufakis dispenses with technical jargon, and when he does use it, he goes to great lengths to clearly define what he's talking about." --Mark Haskell Smith, The Los Angeles Times "Varoufakis has used his considerable talents . . . to demystify complex financial concepts designed to elude us . . . 'Ensuring that everyone is allowed to talk authoritatively about the economy is a prerequisite for a good society and a precondition for an authentic democracy' [he writes]. If this is his goal, then Varoufakis has more than achieved it . . . He clearly and patiently helps readers come to an understanding of just how much power global corporate finance--and the supranational institutions that serve it--wields over our lives . . . If anyone can figure out a way to put a chicken in every pot and a bottle of bubbly on every table, it's Yanis Varoufakis." --Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, The Nation "Varoufakis [promises] to explain economics in a language that everyone can understand, in place of the jargon- infested pseudo-scientific language of mainstream economics....Varoufakis comes up with a vivid comparison between money supply and the market in cigarettes in a German prisoner-of-war camp to explain inflation, deflation and interest rates, in terms any teenager - or adult - will understand . . . Varoufakis does equip his readers with the beginnings of a new language, and punctures myth after myth" -- Anna Minton, The Guardian, Best Book of 2018, Business & Leadership "Charming and utterly fascinating . . . It's a sharp analysis mixed with philosophical rumination told in a breezy mix of family anecdotes, Greek myth, world history and a surprisingly deep dive into the hidden meanings embedded in Star Trek and The Matrix . . . It's a book for everyone. Varoufakis dispenses with technical jargon, and when he does use it, he goes to great lengths to clearly define what he's talking about." --Mark Haskell Smith, The Los Angeles Times "Varoufakis has used his considerable talents . . . to demystify complex financial concepts designed to elude us . . . 'Ensuring that everyone is allowed to talk authoritatively about the economy is a prerequisite for a good society and a precondition for an authentic democracy' [he writes]. If this is his goal, then Varoufakis has more than achieved it . . . He clearly and patiently helps readers come to an understanding of just how much power global corporate finance--and the supranational institutions that serve it--wields over our lives . . . If anyone can figure out a way to put a chicken in every pot and a bottle of bubbly on every table, it's Yanis Varoufakis." --Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, The Nation "Varoufakis [promises] to explain economics in a language that everyone can understand, in place of the jargon- infested pseudo-scientific language of mainstream economics....Varoufakis comes up with a vivid comparison between money supply and the market in cigarettes in a German prisoner-of-war camp to explain inflation, deflation and interest rates, in terms any teenager - or adult - will understand . . . Varoufakis does equip his readers with the beginnings of a new language, and punctures myth after myth" -- Anna Minton, The Guardian
Table of Content
1. Why So Much Inequality? 2. The Birth of the Market Society 3. The Marriage of Debt and Profit 4. The Black Magic of Banking 5. Two Oedipal Markets 6. Haunted Machines 7. The Dangerous Fantasy of Apolitical Money 8. Stupid Viruses?
Dewey Decimal
330
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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