Cambridge Forum: Is Capitalism Devouring Democracy?

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Join Cambridge Forum for a discussion with Yanis Varoufakis—a former finance minister of Greece, fierce EU critic, and Professor of Economics at the University of Athens—as he considers the need for a radically new way of thinking about the economy, finance, and capitalism.

For sale at the event will be his latest book, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails.

About Talking to My Daughter About the Economy

Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of nations, assemblies of experts, and countless students around the world. Now, he faces his most important―and difficult―audience yet. Using clear language and vivid examples, Varoufakis offers a series of letters to his young daughter about the economy: how it operates, where it came from, how it benefits some while impoverishing others. Taking bankers and politicians to task, he explains the historical origins of inequality among and within nations, questions the pervasive notion that everything has its price, and shows why economic instability is a chronic risk. Finally, he discusses the inability of market-driven policies to address the rapidly declining health of the planet his daughter’s generation stands to inherit.

Throughout, Varoufakis wears his expertise lightly. He writes as a parent whose aim is to instruct his daughter on the fundamental questions of our age―and through that knowledge, to equip her against the failures and obfuscations of our current system and point the way toward a more democratic alternative.