Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present

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Penguin Random House, 10 Sept 2020 - Economics - 240 pages
Imagine if Occupy and Extinction Rebellion actually won. In Another Now world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis shows us what such a world would look like. Far from being a fantasy, he describes how it could have come about - and might yet. But would we really want it? Varoufakis's boundary-breaking new book confounds expectations of what the good society would look like and reveals the uncomfortable truth about our desire for a better world...

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User Review  - the.ken.petersen - LibraryThing

Wow! This is a Utopia, with flaws! Thomas Moore wrote the original Utopia and, since then, many Utopias and Dystopias have been created. This is, by far, the most complex that I have read. The novel ... Read full review

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In the alternate future, Yanis Varoufakis is a science fiction writer. I enjoyed the discussion of the economic ideas but the science fiction story used to frame it was redundant. If you like these ... Read full review

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About the author (2020)

Yanis Varoufakis is the author of the bestseller Talking to My Daughter- A Brief History of Capitalism and two previous books, Adults in the Room, a memoir of his time as finance minister of Greece, and an economic history of Europe, And the Weak Suffer What They Must?, both of which were number one bestsellers. Born in Athens in 1961, Yanis Varoufakis was for many years a professor of economics in Britain, Australia and the USA before he entered politics. He is co-founder of the international grassroots movement DiEM25 and, since 2019, he is leading its parliamentary party in Greece's Parliament. He is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Athens.
yanisvaroufakis.eu / @yanisvaroufakis

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