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Another Now
- Author
- Yanis Varoufakis
- Narrator
- Leighton Pugh
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 10 September 2020
- Run Time
- 7 hours 29 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis presents his radical and subversive answer.
Imagine it is 2025. Years earlier, in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, a global hi-tech uprising has birthed a post-capitalist world in which work, money, land, digital networks and politics have been truly democratised.
In a thought-experiment of startling originality, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis offers a glimpse of this alternative reality. Through the eyes of three characters - a libertarian ex-banker, a Marxist-feminist and a maverick technologist - we see the genesis of a world without commercial banks or stock markets, where companies are owned equally by all staff, basic income is guaranteed, global imbalances and climate change cancel each other out, and housing is socialised.
Is a liberal socialism feasible? Can prosperity grow without costing the Earth? Are we able to build the good society, despite our flaws?
As radical in its form as in its vision, Another Now blends Platonic dialogue with speculative fiction to show that there is an alternative to capitalism, while also confronting us with the greatest question: how far are we willing to go to bring it about?
(C) Yanis Varoufakis 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
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Combining a provocative thought-experiment with a deeply original sci-fi narrative, this book is both visionary in its search for new possibilities and realistic in its embrace of the complexities of our human nature
Alfonso Cuarón, Oscar-winning Director of Roma and Gravity
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A landmark work ... A vision of a new society with new ways of thinking is possibly the most important thing an artist can offer at the moment
Brian Eno
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I am enjoying Yanis Varoufakis's Another Now. The way we live is not inevitable
Jeanette Winterson
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I could not recommend this more. If you're looking for a sense of optimism, a sense of political possibility, this book is very important
Owen Jones
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From @yanisvaroufakis' sf novel ANOTHER NOW, the absolute best description of the scam of #InvestmentBanking I've ever read
Cory Doctorow on Twitter
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There is something exciting, even invigorating, about envisioning this world alongside Varoufakis ... one finishes Another Now buzzing with a sense of possibility
The Monthly
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Another Now is structurally, ideologically and linguistically an extraordinary work
Zoe Williams
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I've absolutely loved reading [Another Now] ... the second I started reading it, it surprised and intrigued me
Matthew Taylor, RSA
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Another Now is not only a marvellously good read - it is a notable addition to the literature of social change
The Wire
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The reason Varoufakis seems to have captured the imaginations of so many is that his words about the European crisis speak universal truths about democracy, capitalism and social policy
Guardian
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Details
- Author
- Yanis Varoufakis
- Narrator
- Leighton Pugh
- Duration
- 7 hours 29 minutes
- Release Date
- 10 September 2020
- ISBN
- 9781473577572
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Economic theory and philosophy, Social discrimination and social justice, Political economy, Political structure and processes, Social forecasting, future studies, Political science and theory, Social theory
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis presents his radical and subversive answer.Imagine it is 2025. Years earlier, in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, a global hi-tech uprising has birthed a post-capitalist world in which work, money, land, digital networks and politics have been truly democratised. In a thought-experiment of startling originality, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis offers a glimpse of this alternative reality. Through the eyes of three characters - a libertarian ex-banker, a Marxist-feminist and a maverick technologist - we see the genesis of a world without commercial banks or stock markets, where companies are owned equally by all staff, basic income is guaranteed, global imbalances and climate change cancel each other out, and housing is socialised.Is a liberal socialism feasible? Can prosperity grow without costing the Earth? Are we able to build the good society, despite our flaws?As radical in its form as in its vision, Another Now blends Platonic dialogue with speculative fiction to show that there is an alternative to capitalism, while also confronting us with the greatest question: how far are we willing to go to bring it about?(C) Yanis Varoufakis 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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