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Other Varoufakis videos that are worth watching if you want to know more about him and his views:

* "The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy " -- about his book, a nice narrative of the last 100 years of the political economy -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEUWxNifJJ8

* Richard D. Wolf's Global Capitalism update featuring Varoufakis -- Richard D. Wolf is always fun to watch, he looks like a Marxist version of Homeland's Saul Berenson -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc-iYzniEXM

* "Confessions of an Errant Marxist" -- sort of Varoufakis's origin story -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3uNIgDmqwI

* Bizarre BBC Newsnight interview with Varoufakis -- where you can see the BBC's idealogical function leaking through -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVpWOk7vu18

It's evident from watching these that he is almost without exception the smartest person in every room he's in. And unlike most other economists, he is actually, you know, alive.

Also, the obligatory Pettis articles that should be read by everyone who wishes to form an opinion about Greece's current position:

* http://blog.mpettis.com/2015/02/syriza-and-the-french-indemn...

* http://blog.mpettis.com/2015/02/when-do-we-decide-that-europ...

And to encourage some cynanism about the neoliberal wisdoms, here's a contrarian economist called Ha-Joon Chang:

* "23 Things they don't tell you about about Capitalism" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whVf5tuVbus

And then of course at the end of the rainbow there is David Harvey:

* "The 17 Contradictions of Capitalism", LSE -- https://youtu.be/AULJlwoI3TI

We also recently had a spirited HN thread about Greece that had some good stuff in it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9314000

⬐ randomhunt

"It's evident from watching these that he is almost without exception the smartest person in every room he's in."

Careful...your "idealogical function [is] leaking through"...

⬐ return0

Why would you watch them? Did you manage to figure out what he 's talking about or if he even has a concrete proposal? His modest proposal is nothing but generalities and unfinished arguments. I voted for his party but this guy lives in the world of half-assed academic hypotheses. He will probably end up resigning and go back to teaching in whatever country claiming that the world wasnt ready for him.

⬐ mackwic

I know it's not the HN guideline to thanks, but crap. Thank you for your exceptionally well sourced comment.

I wish I had something like pocket for the youtube videos so that I could watch them during transit.

⬐ dang

> I know it's not the HN guideline to thanks

Of course it is! It's just fine.

I am not terribly taken by the book as a whole, but you would probably profit from reading the first chapters of "23 things they don't tell you about capitalism" [0].

[0] you can find an epub with a simple google search, or listen to this talk by the author, who unfortunately has a thick korean accent: http://youtu.be/whVf5tuVbus?#t=4m

Edit: correction