Yanis Varoufakis: The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a narrative of a century of political economy and the geopolitics behind the 2008 crash.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

SkriptaTV

Topic

political economy

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2015–2015

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From the original HN conversations

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• Other Varoufakis videos that are worth watching if you want to know more about him and his views: * "The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy " -- about his book, a nice narrative of the last 100 years of …

• He gave 2 talks a few years ago that are well worth a watch - he talks briefly about the abuse of mathematics in certain parts of academic economy, cites a Star Trek Voyager episode and other interesting things: [LINK] [VIDEO]

• I enjoyed this video in which Yanis Varoufakis explains some geopolitical macro economics during the post WWII and cold war era, why the crash/recovery of 2008 is mutating into different forms. [VIDEO] The U.S. had to be very creative in order maintain power when they …