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Adults in the Room 錢鬥遊戲

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What happens when you take on 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 earth.

After being swept into power with the left-wing Syriza party, Varoufakis attempts to renegotiate Greece's relationship with the EUand 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 resolve Greece's debt crisis without resorting to punishing austerity measures. But despite the mass support 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 failedand spawned authoritarianism, populist revolt, and instability throughout the Western world. Adults in the Room is an extraordinary tale of brinkmanship, hypocrisy, collusion, and betrayal that will shake the global establishment to its foundations.

 

當你接管一個機構時會發生什麼事?在《錢鬥遊戲》中,著名經濟學家和前希臘財政部長亞尼斯•瓦魯法基斯全面、生動地描述了他與世界上各大強權發生過的重大衝突。
 
隨著左翼政黨「激進左翼聯盟」上台執政後,瓦魯法基斯試圖重新開啟希臘與歐盟關係的談判--也因此引發了一場影響全球的激烈戰爭。瓦魯法基斯的新職位讓他在雅典的大規模示威、單調乏味的歐盟和國際貨幣基金組織辦公室的閉門會談以及與華府的政治掮客密談之間穿梭。他一邊和巴拉克•歐巴馬、伊曼紐爾•馬克龍、克里斯汀•拉加德、經濟學家拉里•薩默斯和杰弗裡•薩克斯等人請益和爭論,一邊設法在不訴諸懲罰性緊縮政策下去解決希臘的債務危機。但是,儘管瓦魯法基斯獲得希臘人民的支持而且他的論點簡單易懂,他卻引發了歐洲精英們的怒火。 
 
瓦魯法基斯未經修飾的回憶錄是一個警鐘,即歐盟和白宮曾經主張的經濟政策已經失敗--並且在整個西方世界帶來了威權主義、民粹主義的反撲和動亂。《錢鬥遊戲》是一個關於邊緣政策、偽善、勾結和背叛的不凡故事,它們將動搖全球政體的根基。

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