Technofeudalism

What an amazing piece of work this is. Ground-breaking, thought-provoking and highly accessible. Everyone should read it. This is where we’re going. The dark, scary, exciting song of our age. 100 out of 100 – IRVINE WELSHAn important new book … that describes what is happening in terms of an epochal, once-in-a-millennium shift … in Varoufakis’s telling, this isn’t just new technology. This is the world grappling with an entirely new economic system and therefore political power – Carole Cadwalladr * Observer *Arresting … an ambitious thinker and a lively writer … Varoufakis is right that we are in thrall to digital platforms, who hold our data hostage and prevent us from switching to “a competing cloud fief” * The Times *Varoufakis is a remarkable combination of analyst and dreamer… as always, Varoufakis makes his readers think… an important achievement * Financial Times, Books of the Year *In his characteristically enthralling style, Varoufakis guides the reader through some of the most significant trends in the modern economy, showing clearly how the big tech giants have built an economy that works for them - and how everyone else can take power back – GRACE BLAKELEYA book for anybody who wants to understand the mess we’re in - and since we’re all in this mess, that makes it a book for everybody – SLAVOJ ZIZEKWith superb storytelling, Varoufakis shows how capitalism has eaten itself alive, mutating into an entirely different and more dangerous beast, and calls on us to free ourselves from digital serfdom – BRETT SCOTT, author of CloudmoneyProvocative and accessible, this is sure to be a key touchstone in debates about the future of the global economy – NICK SRNICEK, co-author of Inventing the FutureCompulsive and necessary reading – KEN LOACHWhat if capitalism died and no one noticed - not even the capitalists? Digital platforms usurped capitalism and installed something far worse. This book is an urgent demand to seize the means of computation – CORY DOCTOROW

Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, political leader and the author of numerous bestselling books- Talking to My Daughter- A Brief History of Capitalism; Technofeudalism- What Killed Capitalism, which shows how the owners of big tech have become the world’s feudal overlords; Adults in the Room, a memoir of his time as finance minister of Greece; an economic history of Europe, And The Weak Suffer What They Must?; and Another Now- Dispatches from An Alternative Present. Born in Athens in 1961, he was for many years a professor of economics in Britain, Australia and the USA before he entered politics. He is co-founder of the international grassroots movement DiEM25 and a Professor of Economics at the University of Athens.