Yanis Varoufakis is the former finance minister of Greece. He was for many years a professor of economics in Britain, Australia and the USA before he entered government. He is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Athens. Since resigning from Greece's finance ministry he has co-founded an international grassroots movement, DiEM25, which campaigns for the revival of democracy in Europe. He is the author of Adults in the Room and the Sunday Times Number 1 bestseller And the Week Suffer What They Must?

• Foreword by Paul Mason1. Introduction2. Laboratories of the Future3. The Global Plan4. The Global Minotaur5. The Beast's Handmaidens6. Crash7. The Handmaidens Strike Back8. The Minotaur's Global Legacy: The Dimming Sun, the Wounded Tigers, a Flighty Europa and an Anxious Dragon9. A Future Without the Minotaur?

An all-encompassing account of Western postwar history, seen through the lens of one overriding problem: how to resolve the imbalances in financial flows between nations.

Yanis Varoufakis is the former finance minister of Greece. He was for many years a professor of economics in Britain, Australia and the USA before he entered government. He is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Athens. Since resigning from Greece's finance ministry he has co-founded an international grassroots movement, DiEM25, which campaigns for the revival of democracy in Europe. He is the author of Adults in the Room and the Sunday Times Number 1 bestseller And the Week Suffer What They Must?

• Foreword by Paul Mason1. Introduction2. Laboratories of the Future3. The Global Plan4. The Global Minotaur5. The Beast's Handmaidens6. Crash7. The Handmaidens Strike Back8. The Minotaur's Global Legacy: The Dimming Sun, the Wounded Tigers, a Flighty Europa and an Anxious Dragon9. A Future Without the Minotaur?

An all-encompassing account of Western postwar history, seen through the lens of one overriding problem: how to resolve the imbalances in financial flows between nations.

Yanis Varoufakis is the former finance minister of Greece. He was for many years a professor of economics in Britain, Australia and the USA before he entered government. He is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Athens. Since resigning from Greece's finance ministry he has co-founded an international grassroots movement, DiEM25, which campaigns for the revival of democracy in Europe. He is the author of Adults in the Room and the Sunday Times Number 1 bestseller And the Week Suffer What They Must?

• Foreword by Paul Mason1. Introduction2. Laboratories of the Future3. The Global Plan4. The Global Minotaur5. The Beast's Handmaidens6. Crash7. The Handmaidens Strike Back8. The Minotaur's Global Legacy: The Dimming Sun, the Wounded Tigers, a Flighty Europa and an Anxious Dragon9. A Future Without the Minotaur?

An all-encompassing account of Western postwar history, seen through the lens of one overriding problem: how to resolve the imbalances in financial flows between nations.