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  • Published: 5 March 2019
  • ISBN: 9781784705756
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $26.99

Talking to My Daughter

The Sunday Times Bestseller




The number-one bestselling, world renowned economist writes a series of letters to his daughter to explain what economics is and why it is so dangerous.

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**

Yanis Varoufakis, world renowned economist, writes to his daughter to teach her the hazards of capitalism.

'Why is there so much inequality?' asked Xenia to her father. Answering her questions in a series of accessible and tender letters, Varoufakis educates her to what economics and capitalism is and why it is so dangerous.

Taking from memories of her childhood and a variety of well-known tales - from Oedipus and Faust to Frankenstein and The Matrix - Varoufakis turns Talking To My Daughter into an enjoyable and engaging read, without ever shying from the harder truths. Greece's former finance minister explains everything you need to know to understand why economics is the most important drama of our times.

In answering his daughter's deceptively simple questions, Varoufakis disentangles our troubling world with remarkable clarity and child-like honesty, as well as inspiring us to make it a better one.

'Utterly accessible, deeply humane and startlingly original - a potent democratic tool at the perfect time' Naomi Klein

  • Published: 5 March 2019
  • ISBN: 9781784705756
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $26.99

About the author

Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, political leader and the author of numerous bestselling books: Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism; Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, which shows how the owners of big tech have become the world's feudal overlords; Adults in the Room, a memoir of his time as finance minister of Greece; an economic history of Europe, And The Weak Suffer What They Must?; and Another Now: Dispatches from An Alternative Present. Born in Athens in 1961, he 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 a Professor of Economics at the University of Athens.

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Praise for Talking to My Daughter

It's great fun to read ... Varoufakis has started a debate here, and he's done it brilliantly

Evening Standard

Utterly accessible, deeply humane and startlingly original – a potent democratic tool at the perfect time

Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough

A provocative, challenging, yet non-patronising analysis of the global economy. By using ancient myths, contemporary culture and family stories, Varoufakis makes the text intimate and accessible

Nigel Jones, Observer

Experts have often found it easier to hide behind opaque language than to explain complex concepts in simple terms … Varoufakis wants to smash this barrier. . . He equips his readers with the beginnings of a new language, and punctures myth after myth – anna minton, guardian

Anna Minton, Guardian

Varoufakis's brief history of capitalism unspools with characteristic fluency and verve ... those seeking to better understand the 'black magic' of bankers should look no further

Financial Times

A stimulating and elegant perspective on market economies. It is accessible but not simplistic … A superb chapter on banking ... provocative and stylish

Paschal Donohoe, Irish Times

One of my few heroes. As long as people like Varoufakis are around, there still is hope

Slavoj Zizek

An outstanding economist and political analyst

Noam Chomsky

The Thucydides of our time

Jeffrey Sachs

Utterly accessible, deeply humane and startlingly original – a potent democratic tool at the perfect time

Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough

One of the most accurate and detailed descriptions of modern power ever written

Guardian on Adults In The Room

Varoufakis has the greatest political virtues of all – courage and honesty

The Times

Astonishing … a reflection on the nature and meaning of power in our times

Open Democracy on Adults In The Room

Superbly written ... he was – and is – right

Martin Wolf, Financial Times, on Adults in the Room

A provocative, challenging, yet non-patronising analysis of the global economy: what it is, how it came to be and why it can never be apolitical. By using ancient myths, contemporary culture and family stories, Varoufakis makes the text intimate and accessible

Nigel Jones, Observer

If you're Left-wing, or even if you have doubts about market economies, you'll love his arguments because they're so easy to understand. If you're on the Right, you'll have a very clear idea of how your cleverest opponents think ... Varoufakis tells all this with exemplary verve ... It's great fun to read ... Varoufakis has started a debate here, and he's done it brilliantly

Evening Standard

Experts have often found it easier to hide behind opaque language than to explain complex concepts in simple terms … Varoufakis wants to smash this barrier: he argues from the outset that if we defer to experts on the economy then we hand over all our most important political decisions to them … Varoufakis does equip his readers with the beginnings of a new language, and punctures myth after myth

Anna Minton, Guardian

Varoufakis's brief history of capitalism unspools with characteristic fluency and verve ... those seeking to better understand the 'black magic' of bankers should look no further

Financial Times

A stimulating and elegant perspective on market economies. It is accessible but not simplistic … A superb chapter on banking ... provocative and stylish

Paschal Donohoe, Irish Times