A titanic battle is being waged for Europe’s integrity and soul, with the forces of reason and humanism losing out to growing irrationality.

In this "Talks at Google" lecture, Yanis Varoufakis delivers a fresh look at the history of Europe’s crisis and America’s central role in it.

 

He presents the ultimate case against austerity, proposing concrete policies for Europe necessary to address its crisis and avert contagion to America, China, and the rest of the world. With passionate, informative, and at times humorous prose, he warns that the implosion of an admittedly crisis–ridden and deeply irrational European monetary union should, and can, be avoided at all cost.