Another Now

Dispatches from an Alternative Present

De: Yanis Varoufakis

Narrado por: Leighton Pugh

Duración: 7 h y 28 m

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Brought to you by Penguin.

What would a fair and equal society look like?

Imagine it is now 2025 and that years earlier, in the wake of the world financial crisis of 2008, a new post-capitalist society had been born. In this ingenious book, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis draws on the greatest thinkers in European culture from Plato to Marx to offer us a dramatic and tantalising glimpse of this brave new world, where the principles of democracy, equality and justice are truly served.

But in setting out what would be needed to forge such a society, he identifies a painful but important truth: that the greatest obstacles to making such a vision a reality lie within each of us.

This book offers answers to some of the most pressing questions of today. It also challenges us to consider how we might answer them in our lives.

©2020 Yanis Varoufakis (P)2020 Penguin Audio

Essential Reading

As might be expected, I found it difficult to catch on at the beginning but, once the main characters and premise had been well and truly stated, I was rapt with excited attention as Varoufakis’ revealed his alternate to our dreadful present of unfettered capitalism. I dream that this might become a reality...
Well done Yanis!!!

very important book

delightfully rare combo of readable and believable utopian narrative & much needed hardnosed political theory

Very interesting way to put across promising ideas

I like this book a lot. Very enjoyable listen. I came to care for the characters and was a little sad when the end credits rolled, as I will miss their thought-provoking conversations. The economic and political ideas are intriguing. I can see a lot of value in them, Well done Yanis. Thanks for all your hard work. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Brilliant teacher, miserable author of fiction

I deeply admire Yanis Varoufakis for his thinking on economics and politics, and love watching him speak and teach. It never occurred to me that a sci-fi book by him could be so incredibly DULL!

The editors of the book failed to convey the age old "Show, don't tell" maxim to the fresh author of fiction, so failing to turn a very promising concept into a book worth reading.

The narration also sucks, big time! It might put you to sleep, though, if you don't get too annoyed by the constant condescension the narrator conveys.