Talking to My Daughter About the Economy : A Brief History of Capitalism

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER`Why is there so much inequality?' Xenia asks her father; the world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis. Drawing on memories of her childhood and a variety of well-known tales - from Oedipus and Faust to Frankenstein and The Matrix - Varoufakis explains everything you need to know in order to understand why economics is the most important drama of our times.In answering his daughter's deceptively simple questions; Varoufakis disentangles our troubling world with remarkable clarity; while inspiring us to make it a better one.'Utterly accessible; deeply humane and startlingly original - a potent democratic tool at the perfect time' Naomi Klein