“ Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stra… Yanis Varoufakis
“ Upton Sinclair once said, ‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. Yanis Varoufakis
“ ... toxic derivatives were underpinned by toxic economics, which, in turn, were no more than motivated delusions in search of theoretical justification; fundamentalist tracts that acknowledged facts o… Yanis Varoufakis
“ Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no industrial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wi… Yanis Varoufakis
“ Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is i… Yanis Varoufakis