Another Now - Dispatches from an Alternative Present

Informationen zum Autor Yanis Varoufakis is the author of the bestseller Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism and two previous books, Adults in the Room , a memoir of his time as finance minister of Greece, and an economic history of Europe, And the Weak Suffer What They Must? , both of which were number one bestsellers. Born in Athens in 1961, Yanis Varoufakis was for many years a professor of economics in Britain, Australia and the USA before he entered politics. He is co-founder of the international grassroots movement DiEM25 and, since 2019, he is leading its parliamentary party in Greece's Parliament. He is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Athens. Klappentext Imagine if Occupy and Extinction Rebellion actually won. In Another Now world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis shows us what such a world would look like. Zusammenfassung Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No billionaires. Imagine if Occupy and Extinction Rebellion actually won. In Another Now world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis shows us what such a world would look like. Far from being a fantasy, he describes how it could have come about - and might yet. But would we really want it? Varoufakis's boundary-breaking new book confounds expectations of what the good society would look like and reveals the uncomfortable truth about our desire for a better world... 'Visionary' Alfonso Cuarón, Oscar-winning Director of Roma and Gravity 'A landmark work' Brian Eno 'I could not recommend this more' Owen Jones 'An extraordinary work' Zoe Williams 'I am enjoying Yanis Varoufakis's Another Now . The way we live is not inevitable' Jeanette Winterson

Product details

• Authors: Yanis Varoufakis
• Publisher: Bodley Head Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781847925633
• ISBN: 978-1-84792-563-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 225 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, 21st Century, Social forecasting, future studies, Political science & theory, Political structure & processes, Social discrimination & inequality, Political Economy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Political science and theory, Social discrimination and equal treatment, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Political structure and processes