What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The
world-renowned economist and bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis
presents his radical and subversive answer. Imagine it is 2025. Years
earlier, in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, a global hi-tech
uprising has birthed a post-capitalist world in which work, money, land,
digital networks and politics have been truly democratised.
In a
thought-experiment of startling originality, world-famous economist
Yanis Varoufakis offers a glimpse of this alternative reality. Through
the eyes of three characters - a libertarian ex-banker, a
Marxist-feminist and a maverick technologist - we see the genesis of a
world without commercial banks or stock markets, where companies are
owned equally by all staff, basic income is guaranteed, global
imbalances and climate change cancel each other out, and housing is
socialised. Is a liberal socialism feasible? Can prosperity grow
without costing the Earth? Are we able to build the good society,
despite our flaws? As radical in its form as in its vision, Another Now
blends Platonic dialogue with speculative fiction to show that there is
an alternative to capitalism, while also confronting us with the
greatest question: how far are we willing to go to bring it about?
Another Now : Dispatches from an Alternative Present - Yanis Varoufakis
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