Talking to my daughter about the economy or, how capitalism works-- and how it fails
By: Yanis Varoufakis ; translated from the Greek by Jacob Moe and Yanis Varoufakis
Contributors: Moe, Jacob, translator
Edition: First American edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780374272364
Subjects: Economics; Capitalism
Other titles: How capitalism works-- and how it fails
Work titles: Talking to my daughter about the economy
Description: In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption of world economics. 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 daughters 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.
Notes: "Originally published in Greek in 2013 by Patakis Publishers, Greece. English translation originally published in 2017 by The Bodley Head, Great Britain as "Talking to my daughter about the economy: a brief history of capitalism"--Title page verso.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Why so much inequality?; title: The birth of the market society; title: The marriage of debt and profit; title: The black magic of banking; title: Two Oedipal markets; title: Haunted machines; title: The dangerous fantasy of apolitical money; title: Stupid viruses?; title: Epilogue.