Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and politician.

Show notes

Selected links

• Follow Yanis: Website | Twitter
• Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present, by Yanis Varoufakis
• The Sovereignty of Good, by Iris Murdoch
• 'Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox', paper by Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers
• 'The Social Responsibility Of Business Is to Increase Its Profits', The New York Times article by Milton Friedman

Topics discussed

• Utopia. 4:46
• The Sovereignty of Good. 9:14
• Has capitalism enabled people to pursue higher goods? 12:38
• What is capitalism? 16:08
• Monopolies. 23:19
• The problem with capitalism. 28:54
• Are workers robots or autonomous souls? 34:40
• Is capitalism making us happier? 54:30
• Milton Friedman's 1970 article on profit maximisation. 1:02:41
• What is Yanis's alternative to capitalism? 1:09:12

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