Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to …

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