Yanis Varoufakis
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1,142 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3 May
Yanis Varoufakis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He said that the economist has a duty to combine a philosophical predisposition, the analytical powers of a mathematician.
the diplomatic skills of a foreign minister or an ambassador, and so on and so on and so forth, and then come to the conclusion, you see, I believe that all students of economics have to learn all these models, reject them, train their mind through understanding all the models, and not just the classical neoliberal models.
I can say this as a left-winger about Marxist economics, too, because that also hits a wall of analytical knowledge.
power that it can't get.
And then, you know, you set all this aside.
And at some point, you use your judgment to make the call.
And there is no way in which this call can be reduced to a scientific process.
This is the beauty of democracy.
And of humanity.
Because, you know, if we could have an AI machine that could find all the right answers to all the right questions, why do we need democracy?
We'd be redundant.
Redundant.
Yeah, just let the matrix do it.
That's what they're trying to do.
Well, that's what they're trying to do.
But thankfully, human nature is inimical to that.
And you will always find a way of resisting.
I am a permanent refugee, yes.
But let me be a bit more nuanced about this.
Look, I'm not that fanatical.
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