Name: Adults in the Room: My Battle With the European and American Deep Establishment
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Author: Yanis Varoufakis
ISBN: 9780374538057

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Adults in the Room: My Battle With the European and American Deep Establishment

Type

Physical Book

Author

Yanis Varoufakis

Publisher

Farrar Strauss & Giroux

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

560

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780374538057

Synopsis "Adults in the Room: My Battle With the European and American Deep Establishment "

A Number One Sunday Times Bestseller What happens when you take on the establishment? In Adults in the Room, the renowned economist and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis gives the full, blistering account of his momentous clash with the mightiest economic and political forces on earth. After being swept into power with the left-wing Syriza party, Varoufakis attempts to renegotiate Greece’s relationship with the EU―and sparks a spectacular battle with global implications. Varoufakis’s new position sends him ricocheting between mass demonstrations in Athens, closed-door negotiations in drab EU and IMF offices, and furtive meetings with power brokers in Washington, D.C. He consults and quarrels with Barack Obama, Emmanuel Macron, Christine Lagarde, the economists Larry Summers and Jeffrey Sachs, and others, as he struggles to resolve Greece’s debt crisis without resorting to punishing austerity measures. But despite the mass support of the Greek people and the simple logic of Varoufakis’s arguments, he succeeds only in provoking the fury of Europe’s elite. Varoufakis’s unvarnished memoir is an urgent warning that the economic policies once embraced by the EU and the White House have failed―and spawned authoritarianism, populist revolt, and instability throughout the Western world. Adults in the Room is an extraordinary tale of brinkmanship, hypocrisy, collusion, and betrayal that will shake the global establishment to its foundations.

Yanis Varoufakis

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Yanis Varoufakis is an essayist, activist, lecturer, and Greco-Australian politician considered the world's best-selling economist. A reputed academic, he was educated at the universities of Essex and Birmingham, has served as a professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, and currently teaches at the University of Athens.

He rose to fame in 2015 when, as the Minister of Finance of Greece, he confronted the eurozone countries over the Greek debt crisis. He recounted this fight against the troika in his autobiography Adults in the Room, published by Deusto in 2017 and named by The Guardian as "one of the 100 best books of the 21st century". He has published other bestsellers such as And the Weak Suffer What They Must? (Deusto, 2016), Another Now (Deusto, 2021), and is also the author of The Global Minotaur (Captain Swing, 2012) and Talking to My Daughter About the Economy (Destino, 2015).

Co-founder of the international movement DiEM25 and the Progressive International along with Bernie Sanders, he is a regular contributor to international media such as The Guardian. Business Insider considers him "the most interesting man in the world".

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