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Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis

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A European War Union?

ATHENS – Europe has become unrecognizable. Advocates of European unity used to celebrate the European Union as a peace project pitting a splendid...

03.04.2024 20

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

A Tax on Robots?

When robots began stealing jobs from humans, it was easy to panic and call for some sort of tax by which to restore the humans’ competitiveness. In...

11.03.2024 40

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

Economics Is Irredeemably Sexist

ATHENS – Economics has an intractable “women problem.” High-school girls avoid it. Female undergraduates abandon it. And the problem runs deeper...

06.03.2024 80

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

The Two Faces of the Euro

ATHENS – Of all European politicians who never led their countries, Jacques Delors and Wolfgang Schäuble had the greatest impact on Europe. Between...

19.01.2024 50

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

Europe’s Bad China Bluff

ATHENS – On the December 7, the presidents of the European Council and the European Commission, Charles Michel and Ursula von der Leyen,...

19.12.2023 50

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

Europe's 15-Year Slump

ATHENS – Europe is languishing in a long-term economic slump whose origins lay in Wall Street’s near-death experience in 2008. There have, of...

22.11.2023 10

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

Big Tech Cannot Be Regulated

ATHENS – Modern societies have had to deal with exorbitant market power for more than a century. But is Big Tech’s power over us novel? Is Google,...

23.10.2023 10

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

Christine Lagarde’s Gifts to Populists

ATHENS – Christine Lagarde’s three blunders as president of the European Central Bank did not cause the revival of right-wing populism across...

27.09.2023 40

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

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