The Joe Walker Podcast

The Triumph And Tragedy Of Capitalism - Yanis Varoufakis

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Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and politician.


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Selected links

  • Follow Yanis: Website | Twitter
  • Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present, by Yanis Varoufakis
  • The Sovereignty of Good, by Iris Murdoch
  • 'Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox', paper by Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers
  • 'The Social Responsibility Of Business Is to Increase Its Profits', The New York Times article by Milton Friedman


    • Topics discussed

    • Utopia. 4:46
    • The Sovereignty of Good. 9:14
    • Has capitalism enabled people to pursue higher goods? 12:38
    • What is capitalism? 16:08
    • Monopolies. 23:19
    • The problem with capitalism. 28:54
    • Are workers robots or autonomous souls? 34:40
    • Is capitalism making us happier? 54:30
    • Milton Friedman's 1970 article on profit maximisation. 1:02:41
    • What is Yanis's alternative to capitalism? 1:09:12

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