Another Now, Yanis Varoufakis
Another Now, Yanis Varoufakis
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Another Now
A Novel

Author: Yanis Varoufakis

Narrator: Kevin Kenerly

Unabridged: 6 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/17/2022


Synopsis

Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No billionaires.Imagine if Occupy and Extinction Rebellion actually won.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 reveals the uncomfortable truth about our desire for a better world.

About Yanis Varoufakis

Born in Athens in 1961, Yanis Varoufakis was for many years a professor of economics in Britain, Australia and the USA before he became world famous as the finance minister of Greece. He has since written four books: a memoir, Adults in the Room, and an economic history of Europe, And the Weak Suffer What They Must?, both of which were number one bestsellers, followed by his bestselling Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism and, most recently, Another Now: Dispatches from An Alternative Present. He is co-founder of the international grassroots movement DiEM25 and, since 2019, has been leading its parliamentary party in Greece's Parliament. He is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Athens.

About Kevin Kenerly

Kevin Kenerly, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, earned a BA at Olivet College. A longtime member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, he has acted in more than twenty seasons, playing dozens of roles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin on August 21, 2024

2020’s masterpiece maps out today’s capitalism and, step-by-step, an alternative postcapitalism. --The writers I find most inspiring are ones who can take concepts that require a lifetime of learning and present them in such an accessible, engaging manner (another is David Graeber, RIP). --If you’re......more

Goodreads review by Prerna on October 05, 2021

Hello there! Are you worried that the pre-pandemic panic (or lack thereof if you're from the US), and the post-pandemic lethargy is here to stay? Do you find yourself constantly battling with episolatory anxiety and wake up several times in the night to check if you really accepted all those cookies......more

Goodreads review by Janelle on February 02, 2024

Yanis varoufakis, the economist has written an enjoyable novel! I’m not surprised, I always enjoy listening to him talk. He has a way of simply presenting information so it’s easily understandable. In this book one of his characters, Costa invents a machine that enables him to contact an alternative......more

Goodreads review by W.D. on October 18, 2023

TLDR: I'm of three minds: (1) The lit bro didn't want to be seen having read it in public (2) The Yanis-fanboi wanted more economic debate, less fictional scaffolding (3) The eternal 12 year-old was absolutely thrilled (view spoiler)[Two stars, maybe, if you are a yarn-dyed high-brow lit-type, with a number of non-ne (hide spoiler)]......more

Goodreads review by Alex on December 29, 2021

El profe Yanis se avienta una novela de ciencia ficción económica en la que explora la premisa: ¿Qué hubiera pasado si en 2008 se hubiera muerto el capitalismo como lo conocemos en lugar de haber sido salvado por dinero del Banco Central? La historia de los personajes es un pretexto nomás, no rifa ta......more


Quotes

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

“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

“I am enjoying Yanis Varoufakis’s Another Now. The way we live is not inevitable.” Jeanette Winterson, author of The Passion

“[This] 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