Adults in the Room
My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment
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Adults in the Room
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ナレーター：
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Leighton Pugh
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著者：
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Yanis Varoufakis
概要
"Leighton Pugh narrates this work as if it were an unsolved mystery...In a voice of nuanced emotion, Pugh creates muted characters to paint a vivid picture of what the author was up against as he tried to save his country." — AudioFile Magazine
A Number One Sunday Times Bestseller transformed into an illuminating, dynamic audiobook.
What happens when you take on the establishment? In Adults in the Room, renowned economist and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis gives the full, blistering account of his momentous clash with the mightiest economic and political forces on earth.
After being swept into power with the leftwing Syriza party, Varoufakis attempts to re-negotiate Greece’s relationship with the EU—and sparks a spectacular battle with global implications. Varoufakis’s new position sends him ricocheting between mass demonstrations in Athens, closed-door negotiations in drab EU and IMF offices, and furtive meetings with power-brokers in Washington, DC. He consults and quarrels with Barack Obama, Emmanuel Macron, Christine Legarde, the economists Larry Summers and Jeffrey Sachs, and others, as he struggles to relieve Greece’s debt crisis without resorting to punishing austerity measures. But, despite the mass support of the Greek people and the simple logic of Varoufakis’s arguments, he succeeds only in provoking the fury of Europe’s elite.
Varoufakis’s unvarnished memoir is an urgent warning that the economic policies once embraced by the EU and the White House have failed—and spawned authoritarianism, populist revolt, and instability throughout the Western world.
Adults in the Room is an extraordinary tale of brinkmanship, hypocrisy, collusion, and betrayal that will shake the global establishment to its foundations.
A must-listen for anyone interested in current events and the delicate web of global economics.
批評家のレビュー
"Leighton Pugh narrates this work as if it were an unsolved mystery...Pugh turns what might have been a dry collection of facts into a morality tale with heroes and villains. In a voice of nuanced emotion, Pugh creates muted characters to paint a vivid picture of what the author was up against as he tried to save his country. " -AudioFile
"Varoufakis has written one of the greatest political memoirs of all time . . . it is the inside story of high politics told by an outsider . . . Varoufakis gives one of the most accurate and detailed descriptions of modern power ever written." —Paul Mason, The Guardian
"A stylish memoir . . . deeply personal and very well written, with an impressive array of literary allusions . . . [Varoufakis] outlines a cogent case against the austerity heaped on Greece." —Kevin Featherstone, Financial Times
"Riveting . . . An extraordinary account of low cunning at the heart of Greece's 2015 financial bailout . . . [Varoufakis is] a motorcycling, leather jacketed former academic and self-styled rebel who took pleasure in winding up the besuited political class . . . An admirably believable depiction of a Greek and European tragedy." —John Kampfner, The Guardian
"One of my few heroes. As long as people like Varoufakis are around, there still is hope." —Slavoj Žižek
"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
"An outstanding economist and political analyst." —Noam Chomsky
"The most interesting man in the world." —Business Insider
"The Thucydides of our time." —Jeffrey Sachs
account on Greece’s finance crisis.
Enlightening
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However, I can also see how difficult it is for people to rise towards this invading power, since they do not come with guns and tanks, but with means to cripple a country's economy and shackle their politicians.
Hopefully this book will serve as at least an eye opener for some to take action towards the harm being done to democracy in our world today. Because we are alive, everything is possible.
A glimpse of a grim future
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