Yanis Varoufakis

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The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 187. Yanis Varoufakis: How The 2008 Crisis Revived Far-Right Populism · 3 May 2026 podcast

And occasionally, a good obsession gives it away, a win.

So I could sense that.

And then John Howard wins.

And the university starts going down the drain of...

this managerialism.

I realized that the first time, Rory, I realized that the university was turning into a place I didn't want to be in was when the good parking spots next to my office were reserved for managers who were employed to manage us, even though they had no academic credentials whatsoever.

I thought, well, okay, now this is the beginning of the end.

Oh, it won't at all.

Rory, when I arrived in Greece in 2000, in the year 2000, you have to remember I left Greece in 1978 and arrived almost 40 years old in the year 2000.

And I first encountered the Greek bureaucracy.

You know how dogs, you know,

sort of do this when they simply do not comprehend what's happening to listeners some people listen rather than watch Yanis was there moving his head in a rightward fashion sort of looking perplexed I can not only agree with you but I can you know raise it to the end the Greek bureaucracy was astonishingly

mind-bogglingly, disgustingly, not only inefficient, but also corrupt.

I had no doubt about that for a moment.

But the problem is the Greek state did not fall flat on its face because of our bureaucracy.

I wanted to see the Greek bureaucracy cut down in size.

you know, be rendered deficient or being forced to actually, you know, move from a situation where out of 10 public servants, two worked and the other eight scrounged on the work of the two.

So, look, you know, I can agree entirely on that.

But the reason why we're talking about Greece now and the reason why I became finance minister is because of that crisis.

Now, why did that crisis happen?

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