Adults In The Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment - Softcover

Varoufakis, Yanis

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9781847924469: Adults In The Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment

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ISBN 10: 1847924468 ISBN 13: 9781847924469

Publisher: Bodley Head, 2017

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What happens when you take on the establishment? In this blistering, personal account, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis blows the lid on Europe's hidden agenda and exposes what actually goes on in its corridors of power.

Varoufakis sparked one of the most spectacular and controversial battles in recent political history when, as finance minister of Greece, he attempted to re-negotiate his countrys relationship with the EU. Despite the mass support of the Greek people and the simple logic of his arguments, he succeeded only in provoking the fury of Europes political, financial and media elite. But the true story of what happened is almost entirely unknown not least because so much of the EUs real business takes place behind closed doors.

In this fearless account, Varoufakis reveals all: an extraordinary tale of brinkmanship, hypocrisy, collusion and betrayal that will shake the deep establishment to its foundations.

As is now clear, the same policies that required the tragic and brutal suppression of Greeces democratic uprising have led directly to authoritarianism, populist revolt and instability throughout the Western world.

Adults In The Room is an urgent wake-up call to renew European democracy before it is too late.

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"Varoufakis has written one of the greatest political memoirs of all time [and] one of the most accurate and detailed descriptions of modern power ever written" (Guardian)

"A very, very clever person, and in the basic argument about what’s been going on in Europe I think he’s right" (Martin Wolf)

"One of my few heroes. As long as people like Varoufakis are around, there still is hope" (Slavoj Žižek)

"An outstanding economist and political analyst" (Noam Chomsky)

"The most interesting man in the world" (Business Insider)

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