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Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, politician, author and the former finance minister of Greece. He was Greece’s Minister of Finance.

Featured Works
Rational Conflict. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991

Game Theory: A critical introduction. London and New York: Routledge, 1995 (with Shaun Hargreaves-Heap), ISBN 978-0-415-09402-3. 2nd rev ed, 2004 (Game Theory: A critical text), ISBN 978-0-415-25095-5 (translated also in Japanese)

Foundations of Economics: A beginner’s companion. London and New York: Routledge, 1998 (translation in Mandarin)

Adults in the Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment. London and New York: Random House, 2017 (ISBN 978-1-4735-4782-7) The Guardian ranked Adults in the Room #86 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy. The Bodley Head Ltd, 2017 (ISBN 978-1-84792-444-5)

Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present, Bodley Head, 2020 (ISBN 978-1-84792-564-0); Melville House US, 2021 (ISBN 978-1-61219-956-6)

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, (Bodley Head UK, 2023) (ISBN 978-1-84792-727-9); Melville House US, 2024 (ISBN 978-1-68589-124-4)

Experiences
Between 1982 and 1988, Varoufakis taught economics and econometrics at the University of Essex and the University of East Anglia, and also taught at the University of Cambridge.
From January 2004 to December 2006, Varoufakis served as economic advisor to George Papandreou, of whose government he was to become an ardent critic a few years later.
On 27 January 2015, Varoufakis was elected to the Greek parliament, representing Syriza, and took office in the new government of Alexis Tsipras.He was appointed Finance Minister by Tsipras shortly after the election victory.
In March 2018, Varoufakis announced the launch of his own political party, MeRA25, with a stated aim of freeing Greece from “debt bondage”.
At the 2024 European Parliament election, Varoufakis was again a candidate in Greece.

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