Books
Review of TECHNOFEUDALISM – Christopher Pollard in ‘The Conversation’
, 12/11/2023
Yanis Varoufakis grew up during the Greek dictatorship of 1967-1974. He later became an economics professor and was briefly Greek finance minister in 2015. His late father, a chemical engineer in a steel plant, instilled in his son a critical appreciation of how technology drives social change. He also instilled him with a belief that […]
Discussing TECHNOFEUDALISM on ABC-tv THE DRUM with Ellen Fanning and panel
, 03/11/2023
Interviewed by Ellen Fanning on ABC-tv The Drum on my new book TECHNOFEUDALISM: What killed capitalism. A 20 minute-long discussion involving a diverse panel. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis is published by Bodley Head
The big idea: has the digital economy killed capitalism? – The Guardian
, 03/11/2023
Enter Amazon and you have exited capitalism. Despite all the buying and the selling that goes on there, you have entered a realm that can’t be thought of as a market, not even a digital one.” When I say this to people, which I frequently do in lectures and debates, they look at me as they […]
El Pais long interview on my TECHNOFEUDALISM
, 20/10/2023
LONG READ by MIGUEL ÁNGEL GARCÍA VEGA in El Pais on my Technofeudalism. Miguel has interviewed me many times in the past but this time he did so exclusively for my new book TECHNOFEUDALISM: What killed capitalism which will shortly be available in Spanish also. Here is the English language version of Miguel’s piece, based […]
Cory Doctorow reviews my TECHNOFEUDALISM for truthdig
, 16/10/2023
Socialists have been hotly anticipating the end of capitalism since at least 1848, when Marx and Engels published The Communist Manifesto – but the Manifesto also reminds us that capitalism is only too happy to reinvent itself during its crises, coming back in new forms, over and over again. Now, in Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, Yanis Varoufakis – the “libertarian Marxist” former finance […]
Interviewed by Aaron Bastani, for Novara Media, on my TECHNOFEUDALISM
, 08/10/2023
In his new book, ‘Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism’, Yanis Varoufakis explores how giant tech firms, both in the US and China are expanding their control over the planet. His analysis is that, whilst material resources certainly matter, the real battle ground is over digital real estate. Aaron sat down with Yanis to talk about how […]
The NEW STATESMAN reviews my TECHNOFEUDALISM
, 07/10/2023
Socialists periodically predict the downfall of capitalism, but each decade the coffin remains empty. In his new book, Yanis Varoufakis – the former Greek finance minister, game theorist and “erratic Marxist” – offers a twist on this familiar narrative. Capitalism, he writes, has already died – we just failed to notice. By George Eaton “It […]
Interviewed by PoliticsJOE on my TECHNOFEUDALISM
, 06/10/2023
Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, politician and author of Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism. He swung by JOE Towers to chat to us about his new book, the regression of neoliberal capitalism to a feudal system ran by a few tech billionaires, and the future of global capital. Subscribe to our new podcast now, or you’re […]
Channel 4’s Krishnan Guru-Murthy interviews me on my TECHNOFEUDALISM
, 06/10/2023
In his latest book, the Greek politician – who in 2015, at the height of the Greek debt crisis, was catapulted from academic obscurity to Minister of Finance – argues that insane sums of money that were supposed to re-float our economies in the wake of the financial crisis and the 2020 pandemic have ended […]
UNHERD interviews me on TECHNOFEUDALISM
, 05/10/2023
In his new book, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, Yanis Varoufakis, the Leftist economist and former finance minister of Greece, suggests that the capitalist age has already come to an end. He argues that a new global economic and political system has stealthily replaced the old order, with the emerging dominance of tech monopolies like Amazon and Google. He […]
Long interview with Carole Cadwalladr, for the Observer/Guardian, on my Technofeudalism
, 04/10/2023
What could be more delightful than a trip to Greece to meet Yanis Varoufakis, the charismatic leftwing firebrand who tried to stick it to the man, AKA the IMF, EU and entire global financial order? The mental imagery I have before the visit is roughly two parts Zorba the Gr eek to one part an episode of […]
Interviewed by Hugo Rifkind, for TIMES RADIO, on my TECHNOFEUDALISM
, 30/09/2023
“We are voluntary servants.” Capitalism is over and ‘social democracy is finished’, says Yanis Varoufakis, economist, author and former Greek finance minister. He tells Hugo Rifkind what’s taking its place. 📻 Listen to Times Radio – https://www.thetimes.co.uk/radio
The MONTHLY reviews my TECHNOFEUDALISM
, 28/09/2023
The economist and author’s latest book considers how 21st-century capitalism resembles feudalism, and offers an alternative Yanis Varoufakis – former Greek minister of finance, economics lecturer and prolific writer of books – has often admitted that the left is good at critiquing capitalism but not so good at suggesting alternatives. “When Margaret Thatcher coined ‘Tina’ […]
The NATION (UAE) reviews TECHNOFEUDALISM
, 26/09/2023
When Yanis Varoufakis wrote a book about capitalism, addressing it to his daughter, then 12, he forced himself to keep the language simple. “If you can’t keep it simple, it means you do not understand what you are saying,” he says. His latest book Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism is again addressed to a family member, this time as […]
Austerity Ruined Europe, and Now It’s Back – Project Syndicate op-ed
, 17/07/2023
The United States is experiencing an investment boom, owing to industrial policies that grant enormous subsidies – including to European firms – for investing in America, largely in green tech. Europe, meanwhile, is responding with a return to the austerity policies that caused it to fall behind the US in the first place. ATHENS – […]
Ήταν αυταπάτη το ΟΧΙ; Η στρατηγική, οι προοπτικές και το κόστος της Ελληνικής Άνοιξης υπό τη σκιά του Grexit
, 05/07/2023
5 Ιουλίου 2023. 8 χρόνια από το Δημοψήφισμα. 2 εβδομάδες από τις κοινοβουλευτικές εκλογές που τιμώρησαν συνολικά την Αριστερά κι έβαλαν την εκλογική ταφόπλακα στην Ελληνική Άνοιξη και στο ΟΧΙ που εκείνη γέννησε την 5η Ιουλίου του 2015. Η σημερινή επέτειος, που βρίσκει θριαμβευτές τους ορκισμένους αντίπαλους του ΟΧΙ, είναι η στιγμή να απαντήσουμε, εμείς […]
Αντί σχολίου περί παραίτησης Τσίπρα: Δύο σύντροφοι-αινίγματα (απόσπασμα από το ΑΝΙΚΗΤΟΙ ΗΤΤΗΜΕΝΟΙ, 2017)
, 02/07/2023
Όπως φαντάζεστε, αυτές τις μέρες δέχομαι συνεχείς προσκλήσεις να σχολιάσω την παραίτηση του Αλέξη Τσίπρα. Πέραν μιας σύντομης ανάρτησης δεν έχω να προσθέσω κάτι. Ίσως όμως βοηθήσει τον δημόσιο διάλογο, ιδίως εντός της Αριστεράς, η αναπαραγωγή ενός κειμένου στο οποίο είχα πασχίσει να καταγράψω, χωρίς κανένα πάθος ή φόβο, όσα κατανόησα για τον άνθρωπο. [Ακολουθεί […]
What’s behind the Great Volatility? Audio of SSGA Zurich Address
, 26/02/2023
From the Great Moderation to the Great Crash, the Great Recession, the Great Stagnation, the Great Inflation and, finally, to the Great Volatility. What are the forces driving this 50yr dynamic? Plus an answer to: “What did the euro crisis teach us about the EU’s various debt instruments?” A lecture delivered on 24th January 2023 […]
Crisis, Recession, the Left & the state of economics – INDIA & GLOBAL LEFT podcast
, 01/01/2023
00:00 Highlights 01:55 Who is Yanis 05:34 Financial crisis & recession 20:06 Revolutionary changes 22:04 European Right 30:22 European Left 37:15 Academics and economics.
Rishi Sunak’s ‘grown-up’ austerity is designed to keep zombie capitalism alive
, 10/11/2022
The demise of Trussonomics was a welcome victory for decency and common sense in a minor battle within a broader class war. Sadly, the class that Liz Truss tried to bolster with copious tax and regulatory gifts will win this war by deploying an even nastier, blunter, dirtier weapon: austerity. Britain’s wealthy owe a debt […]
How the West poisoned its money – Project Syndicate op-ed
, 10/10/2022
ATHENS – Capitalism conquered the world by commodifying almost everything that had a value but not a price, thus driving a sharp wedge between values and prices. It did the same to money. The exchange value of money always reflected people’s readiness to hand over valuable things for given sums of cash. But, under capitalism, […]
“Our Techno-Feudal Hellscape” – On the Real News Network, with Jason Myles & Pascal Robert
, 02/05/2022
From the push to turn more of the workforce into precarious “gig workers” to the ways profit-seeking digital platforms condition how we act and think while extracting free data from us, we can see and feel everyday the creeping evidence that we are living in a new reality. As world-renowned Greek economist, author, and politician […]
Unlike feudalism, techno-feudalism is born of the triumph of capital – KU Podcast-Interview
, 16/04/2022
Along the lines on my evolving hypothesis that capitalism in the process of morphing into techno-feudalism, in this podcast I speak to two fine Finnish leftwing journalists who take me to task and interrogate me on this highly controversial idea. For the podcast’s own site, click here.