Yanis Varoufakis,a new legend for greeks is born.
See what hides in his mind...
Faculty Website
www.yanisvaroufakis.eu
Born in Athens, 1961, Varoufakis moved to England to read Mathematical Economics (Essex), Mathematical Statistics (Birmingham) and to complete a PhD in Economics
(Essex). His academic appointments (teaching economic theory and
policy, political economics and philosophy, econometrics, and game
theory), began at the University of Essex and then took him to the
Universities of East Anglia, Cambridge, Glasgow, and the University of
Sydney – before returning to his native Greece to take up an appointment
at the University of Athens as Professor of Economic Theory and
director of the Political Economy Program, as well as to found
UADPhilEcon, an international doctorate program in economics. He now
holds a Visiting Professorship at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public
Affairs of the University of Texas at Austin. Since the Global and Euro
Crises began in 2008, Varoufakis has been an active participant in the
debates occasioned by these events. Together with Stuart Holland and
James K. Galbraith, he is the author of A Modest Proposal for Resolving the Euro Crisis.
His books include:
His books include:
- The Global Minotaur: The True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy, London and New York: Zed Books, 2011, Second Edition, 2013
- Economic Indeterminacy: A personal encounter with the economists’ peculiar nemesis, London and New York: Routledge, 2013
- Modern Political Economics: Making sense of the post-2008 world, London and New York: Routledge, (with J. Halevi and N. Theocarakis) 2011
- Game Theory: A Critical Text, London and New York: Routledge, (with S. Hargreaves-Heap), 2004
- Foundations of Economics: A beginner's companion, London and New York: Routledge, 1998
- Rational Conflict, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1991
Faculty in the News
| 01/28/2015 | Greece Selects UT Austin Professor as Finance Minister | UT News |
| 01/28/2015 | UT Professor Yanis Varoufakis Named Greece's Finance Minister | Austin American-Statesman |
| 01/26/2015 | Syriza expected to name economist Varoufakis to finance post | Reuters |
| 01/26/2015 | Greece's finance minister is no extremist | The Telegraph |
| 02/10/2014 | Peter Bofinger’s Euro-Bundles are a Step Backwards but also a Solution | International Policy Digest |
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