Yanis Varoufakis: "Democracy is a very fragile flower"

Alphaville's Jemima Kelly and Izabella Kaminska sat down with Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece and current organiser of a trans-European group of what he calls "radical Europeanists" — in favor of union, without deflation or austerity. Mr Varoufakis answers criticism from the left, pointing out that even if the euro or the EU were poorly conceived, leaving them now would have catastrophic consequences for the poor. He gives a brief history of economic thought, connecting Joseph Schumpeter back to Karl Marx, saying it's not so clear that leftists know what Marx, a globalist, would be saying today. Oh, and also: Pamela Anderson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Yanis Varoufakis: "Democracy is a very fragile flower" is an episode from FT Alphachat by Financial Times.

This episode is 41:03 long.

This episode was published on Apr 5, 2019.

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