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"Voici le grand livre de Yanis Varoufakis. Dans cet ouvrage essentiel, il revient sur les négociations qu'il a menées pendant de longs mois pour résoudre la crise de la dette grecque. Mais c'est à une analyse des causes profondes de cette dernière que l'économiste se livre avec brio. En décryptant les dessous de la construction européenne, il montre comment ses instances qui devaient favoriser l'émancipation des peuples se sont finalement retrouvées responsables de leurs enfermements progressifs. Il reprend depuis le commencement les différents écueils du processus d'intégration européenne et le paradoxe d'une monnaie commune qui a fini par diviser. Un ouvrage essentiel pour comprendre la situation actuelle."

"In this remarkable and provocative book, Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis explodes the myth that financialisation, ineffectual regulation of banks, greed and globalisation were the root causes of both the Eurozone crisis and the global economic crisis. Rather, they are symptoms of a much deeper malaise which can be traced all the way back to the Great Crash of 1929, then on through to the 1970s: the time when a 'Global Minotaur' was born. Just as the Athenians maintained a steady flow of tributes to the Cretan beast, so Europe and the rest of the world began sending incredible amounts of capital to America and Wall Street. Thus, the Global Minotaur became the 'engine' that pulled the world economy from the early 1980s through to the financial collapse of 2008.
Today's deepening crisis in Europe is just one of the inevitable symptoms of the weakening Minotaur; of a global 'system' which is now as unsustainable as it is imbalanced. Going beyond this, Varoufakis lays out the options available to us for reintroducing a modicum of reason into a highly irrational global economic order.
An essential account of the socio-economic events and hidden histories that have shaped the world as we now know it."