Yanis Varoufakis with Shami Chakrabarti (2018 Event)
2018 Edinburgh International Book Festival
English - October 17, 2018 09:07 - 57 minutes - 40 MBBooks Arts edbookfest charlotte square Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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THE ECONOMICS OF LIBERTY
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has written several influential books and has co-founded ‘DiEM25’, a pan-European progressive movement which will be competing in next year’s European parliament elections. Adults in the Room was described as ‘one of the greatest political memoirs of all time’, while Talking to My Daughter About the Economy is a lightning-quick account of how capitalism works and how it fails. He discusses his ideas on democracy, liberty, internationalism and radical Europeanism with Shami Chakrabarti, Labour peer and former director of Liberty.
Part of our Killing Democracy? series of events.