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Yanis Varoufakis is an economist at the University of Athens, a popular blogger and media commentator in Greece and Europe. He is the co-architect of “Α Modest Proposal for Overcoming the Euro Crisis” and the author of the new book The Global Minotaur: America, The True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy. He was an economic advisor to George Papandreou from 2004-2007, while he was in the Official Leader of the Opposition in Greece. His blog, “Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World” is widely followed in Europe and North America.
Videos
Yanis Varoufakis: Euro at Risk
January 27, 2012
| 13:49
The Euro's problems continue. Greece's sovereign debt is still neither under control, nor resolved, and they're not the only European country struggling. Author and University of Athens economics...
The Global Economy After Greece
November 8, 2011
| 31:15
As the G20 meets amid the global financial crisis, The Agenda examines where things stand with the fragile European Union and the struggling global economy.
Episodes
January 27, 2012
The Agenda asks: does the wild, wild web need to be controlled? And, Yanis Varoufakis on continuing problems in the Eurozone.
November 8, 2011
Running the Greek Gauntlet: Economist and author Yanis Varoufakis on what is next for Greece. And, as the G20 meetings wrap up, The Agenda examines where things stand with the fragile European Union...
