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Yanis Varoufakis

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Europe’s centrists are finally paying the price of their extremism

Europe’s centrists are finally paying the price of their extremism

Friedrich Merz has been German chancellor for less than a year and half, and his approval ratings are at record lows. His centre-right Christian...

yesterday 40

Al Jazeera

Yanis Varoufakis

The AI Productivity Delusion

The AI Productivity Delusion

ATHENS—Is AI a bubble? It all depends, we are told, on whether massive investments in the technology will massively boost productivity. Optimists...

yesterday 40

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

AI is reviving Chinese Marxist economics

AI is reviving Chinese Marxist economics

ATHENS – As China embraced capitalism, its leading universities adopted mainstream Western textbooks to mold their students’ thinking about the...

17.09.2026 100

The Japan Times

Yanis Varoufakis

AI Is Reviving Chinese Marxist Economics

31.08.2026 90

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

An Athenian View of American Democracy

09.07.2026 100

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

Every British Prime Minister’s Nightmare

ATHENS—The former heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson famously said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.” The same could be said...

16.06.2026 100

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

NATO Must Die

ATHENS—The idea of a European Defense Union is gaining ground across Europe. But so long as NATO continues to dominate Europe’s security, the...

22.05.2026 150

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

Is the Iran War America’s Suez or Its Gallipoli?

ATHENS – When Egypt closed the Suez Canal for five months in 1956, it triggered events that shrunk the global standing of Britain’s pound...

16.04.2026 150

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

Telling the Truth About China’s Success

ATHENS – As missiles, bombs, and drones fly across the Persian Gulf, the prospects of an even more devastating war in the Pacific are strengthening....

02.04.2026 200

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

Fascism by the Book

27.01.2026 150

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

Three Shocks that Shook the World in 2025

22.12.2025 100

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

The Judge at the End of Europe

01.12.2025 90

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

The Judge at the End of Europe

01.12.2025 70

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

No Kings Means No Barons

28.10.2025 90

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

Why the Working Class Matters

30.09.2025 90

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

Will Trump’s Working-Class Base Turn on Him?

18.08.2025 100

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

Beware the Greek Success Story

18.07.2025 150

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis

Defusing the Stablecoin Time Bomb

02.07.2025 80

Project Syndicate

Yanis Varoufakis