Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment

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A Number One Sunday Times Bestseller

What happens when you’re taking at the establishment? In Adults in the Room, the renowned economist and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis gives the full, blistering account of his momentous clash with the mightiest economic and political forces on the planet.

After being swept into power with the left-wing Syriza party, Varoufakis attempts to renegotiate Greece’s relationship with the EU―and sparks a spectacular battle with global implications. Varoufakis’s new position sends him ricocheting between mass demonstrations in Athens, closed-door negotiations in drab EU and IMF offices, and furtive meetings with power brokers in Washington, D.C. He consults and quarrels with Barack Obama, Emmanuel Macron, Christine Lagarde, the economists Larry Summers and Jeffrey Sachs, and others, as he struggles to unravel Greece’s debt crisis without resorting to punishing austerity measures. But in spite of the mass enhance of the Greek people and the simple logic of Varoufakis’s arguments, he succeeds only in provoking the fury of Europe’s elite.

Varoufakis’s unvarnished memoir is an urgent warning that the economic policies once embraced by the EU and the White House have failed―and spawned authoritarianism, populist rebellion, and instability all the way through the Western world. Adults in the Room is an peculiar tale of brinkmanship, hypocrisy, collusion, and betrayal in an effort to shake the global establishment to its foundations.

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