Yanis Varoufakis: The Future of Capitalism | The New School
Sponsored by the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (www.economicpolicyresearch.org) at The New School for Social Research (www.newschool.edu/nssr), Yanis Varoufakis will deliver SCEPA's annual Robert Heilbroner Memorial Lecture, "The Future of Capitalism."
We all know Varoufakis as the former Greek Finance Minister and media sensation who stood up to Europe in the fight against austerity. His lecture will discuss themes from his new book, "And The Weak Suffer What They Must?," including the origins of a crisis that has affected not only Greece, but all of Europe.
The lecture will be followed by a panel discussion featuring New School Professor of Economics Mark Setterfield and economics student Ebba Boye.
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Varoufakis’ career has spanned academia, public service, and the private sector. After three decades in academia, he was elected to the Hellenic Parliament in 2015 as a member of the Syriza Party and became Minister of Finance in Alexis Tsipras’ government. He currently serves as professor of economics at the University of Athens and as a consultant for the Valve Corporation.
The Robert Heilbroner Memorial Lecture on the Future of Capitalism: The Heilbroner lecture honors the work of Robert Heilbroner, who was both a student and a professor in the economics department of The New School for Social Research. This event is dedicated to understanding questions of economic justice and how the profit-seeking activities of private firms might also serve broader social goals. To use Heilbroner’s words, “capitalism’s uniqueness in history lies in its continuously self-generated change, but it is this very dynamism that is the system’s chief enemy.”
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Location: John L. Tishman Auditorium, University Center
Monday, April 25, 2016 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
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Rational and evidence based critique of capitalism and the current problems of liberal democracy. What is surprising these days is that he is being considered radical when this was just common sense and moderate left 30 years ago.
I have never seen a speaker combine history, economics, sociology, and anecdotes in such a masterful and insightful manner.
People often say that Varoufakis was a complete failed economics minister. I am a Greek musician and i watch an economy lecture in a great USA University ....Thats the success of Varoufakis
It is a physical relief to listen to Varoufakis.
I truly enjoy listening to Prof. Varoufakis as I enjoy listening to Chris Hedges and Noam Chomsky. These are the great thinkers of our time and listening to them is a delicious experience.
Omg Varoufakis just summerized my years of thinking in two sentences.
Mr. Varoufakis is a major inspiration. He showed strong critical mind, devotion to his people and integrity. He was just back stabbed by thugs from the EU HQ.
Varoufakis is a legend. He started out studying economics, then went on to write a blog for Valve about the economics of TF2 hats, after that became Greek minister of finance for a couple of months, lost that position because he was too good for it, and now goes around the world trying to revolutionise the EU, with amazing success. What the fuck?
Yanis is simply the honest about how the power elite operate. Those in the lower economic classes are not allowed to decide how the rich will rob them of their minimal value.
Mr. Varoufakis is obviously a brilliant historian, economist, and humanist.
Such an insightful discussion. Yannis is a rock star of economics.
The New School one of the few institutions doing valuable work.
wish this had 22 million views
Wow I am so happy and thankful of seeing thing video at the opposite side of the planet for free. I really feel the same too of the last saying of the Yanis' sole lecture about the techniques and the democratic power as a decision maker for our future. And I hope that the example of myself having the chance to see the vivid lecture and getting inspired by it would be a part of a democratic power for dragging the present for better future.
people like him, needs to be helped to be able to reach out for every body say thanks to those, who uploads all this. He is a great person.
...democracy began in Athens...
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this is something to love about the 21th century - I can sit at home on my fat ass, not move an inch and listen to people far, far away...
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Yanis' interpretation of the Impossibility theorem, reminds me of the halting problem in computation as formulated by Alan Turing.