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Yanis Varoufakis Quotes

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me Picture Quote #1

Nothing is more boring than talking to people who share my opinion anyway Picture Quote #1

I don’t believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world Picture Quote #1

The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years Picture Quote #1

Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece’s new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth Picture Quote #1

Berlin has traditionally backed a rules-based eurozone in which every member state is responsible for its own finances, including bank bailouts, with political union limited to a fiscal overlord’s possessing veto power over national budgets that violate the rules Picture Quote #1

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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military’s might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks Picture Quote #1

Even though I resigned as Papandreou’s adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government’s staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism Picture Quote #1

Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value Picture Quote #1

The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency Picture Quote #1

Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American ‘invention.’ The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone Picture Quote #1

Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players Picture Quote #1

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If the ‘Athens Spring’ - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from ‘We the states’ to ‘We the European people.’ Picture Quote #1

I’m the finance minister of a bankrupt country Picture Quote #1

Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past Picture Quote #1

Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire Picture Quote #1

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I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me. (Yanis Varoufakis Quotes) Nothing is more boring than talking to people who share my opinion anyway (Yanis Varoufakis Quotes) I don’t believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world. (Yanis Varoufakis Quotes) The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years (Yanis Varoufakis Quotes) Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece’s new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth (Yanis Varoufakis Quotes) Berlin has traditionally backed a rules-based eurozone in which every member state is responsible for its own finances, including bank bailouts, with political union limited to a fiscal overlord’s possessing veto power over national budgets that violate the rules. (Yanis Varoufakis Quotes) In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military’s might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks. (Yanis Varoufakis Quotes) Even though I resigned as Papandreou’s adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government’s staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism. (Yanis Varoufakis Quotes) Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value. (Yanis Varoufakis Quotes) The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency. (Yanis Varoufakis Quotes) Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American ‘invention.’ The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone. (Yanis Varoufakis Quotes) Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players (Yanis Varoufakis Quotes) If the ‘Athens Spring’ - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from ‘We the states’ to ‘We the European people.’ (Yanis Varoufakis Quotes) I’m the finance minister of a bankrupt country (Yanis Varoufakis Quotes) Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past (Yanis Varoufakis Quotes) Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire (Yanis Varoufakis Quotes)