#106: The Triumph And Tragedy Of Capitalism – Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and politician.
Show notes
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
- Should change be brought about through revolution or incrementalism? 1:26:08