The great economists are men of great culture. Unlike followers of vulgar economics which are limited to appearances, the phenomena, without seeking the causes that induce these phenomena, they carry a comprehensive, encyclopedic on society to understand and explain the course of the history of human societies. Yanis Varoufakis is a great economist. Reading this book will show you. It is indeed far from the speeches and writings of followers of the neo-liberal economy, with their childish robinsonnades, their dogmatic presuppositions shortsighted and smoky models to tackle a scientific veneer to their superficial rants. Much thought about who master knows to be clear and understandable. This book is fun to read. It is educational, with very accessible to uninitiated explanations. The author is well served by an excellent translation. The numerous notes, both the author and the translator, accompany and facilitate reading. It is with this book, in light years verbiage small lackeys journos "economists" or "political" that merely repeat loop commonplaces of vulgar economics without understanding it themselves grandfather thing and wear peremptory judgments on the Greek Minister of Finance what became Yanis Varoufakis.
