Other Varoufakis videos that are worth watching if you want to know more about him and his views:
* "The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy " -- about his book, a nice narrative of the last 100 years of the political economy -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEUWxNifJJ8
* Richard D. Wolf's Global Capitalism update featuring Varoufakis -- Richard D. Wolf is always fun to watch, he looks like a Marxist version of Homeland's Saul Berenson -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc-iYzniEXM
It's evident from watching these that he is almost without exception the smartest person in every room he's in. And unlike most other economists, he is actually, you know, alive.
Also, the obligatory Pettis articles that should be read by everyone who wishes to form an opinion about Greece's current position:
* "The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy " -- about his book, a nice narrative of the last 100 years of the political economy -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEUWxNifJJ8
* Richard D. Wolf's Global Capitalism update featuring Varoufakis -- Richard D. Wolf is always fun to watch, he looks like a Marxist version of Homeland's Saul Berenson -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc-iYzniEXM
* "Confessions of an Errant Marxist" -- sort of Varoufakis's origin story -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3uNIgDmqwI
* Bizarre BBC Newsnight interview with Varoufakis -- where you can see the BBC's idealogical function leaking through -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVpWOk7vu18
It's evident from watching these that he is almost without exception the smartest person in every room he's in. And unlike most other economists, he is actually, you know, alive.
Also, the obligatory Pettis articles that should be read by everyone who wishes to form an opinion about Greece's current position:
* http://blog.mpettis.com/2015/02/syriza-and-the-french-indemn...
* http://blog.mpettis.com/2015/02/when-do-we-decide-that-europ...
And to encourage some cynanism about the neoliberal wisdoms, here's a contrarian economist called Ha-Joon Chang:
* "23 Things they don't tell you about about Capitalism" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whVf5tuVbus
And then of course at the end of the rainbow there is David Harvey:
* "The 17 Contradictions of Capitalism", LSE -- https://youtu.be/AULJlwoI3TI
We also recently had a spirited HN thread about Greece that had some good stuff in it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9314000