Yanis Varoufakis

Broschiertes Buch

Another Now

Dispatches from an Alternative Present

Beschreibung

'I could not recommend this more. If you're looking for a sense of optimism, a sense of political possibility, this book is very important' Owen Jones

What would a fair and equal society actually look like?

Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No billionaires.

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 confronts us with the greatest question: are we able to build a better society, despite our flaws.

'A vision of a new society with new ways of thinking is possibly the most important thing an artist can offer at the moment' Brian Eno

Autor

Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, political leader and the author of numerous bestselling books: Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism; Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, which shows how the owners of big tech have become the world's feudal overlords; Adults in the Room, a memoir of his time as finance minister of Greece; an economic history of Europe, And The Weak Suffer What They Must?; and Another Now: Dispatches from An Alternative Present. Born in Athens in 1961, he 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 a Professor of Economics at the University of Athens.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 744007
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 207mm x 126mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 176g
• ISBN-13: 9781529110630
• ISBN-10: 1529110637
• Artikelnr.: 61123104

Rezensionen

"Varoufakis offers an alternative vision to what he brands Zuckerberg s Technofeudalist nightmare... In offering a glimpse of how things might be different, Another Now invites us to contemplate possibilities that are not without their challenges, but worth entertaining nonetheless." -- PopMatters

"A landmark work ... A vision of a new society with new ways of thinking is possibly the most important thing an artist can offer at the moment." -- Brian Eno
"One of my few heroes. As long as people like Varoufakis are around, there still is hope." Slavoj i ek

"I could not recommend this more. If you're looking for a sense of optimism, a sense of political possibility, this book is very important." -- Owen

Jones

"I am enjoying Yanis Varoufakis's Another Now. The way we live is not inevitable" -- Jeannette Winterson

Another Now takes us into a wormhole to an alternative present, not to marvel us with flying cars or barren cities, but to get a glimpse of a post-capitalistic world. Combining a provocative thought experiment with a deeply original sci-fi narrative, Yanis Varoufakis asks us to consider how humanity can ever balance freedom with fairness, allowing us to come to our own conclusions the book is both visionary in its search for new possibilities and realistic in its embrace of the burdens, contradictions, and complexities of our human nature. Alfonso Cuarón, Academy Award-winning director of Roma

"There is something exciting, even invigorating, about envisioning this world alongside Varoufakis ... one finishes Another Now buzzing with a sense of possibility." The Monthly

"Another Now is structurally, ideologically and linguistically an extraordinary work." -- Zoe Williams

"I've absolutely loved reading [Another Now] ... the second I started reading it, it surprised and intrigued me." -- Matthew Taylor, RSA

"Another Now is not only a marvellously good read - it is a notable addition to the literature of social change." The Wire