Episode Summary
Yanis Varoufakis and Raphael Arar discuss the Monetary Commons.
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Shownotes
Yanis’ website:
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/
Raphael’s website:
https://rarar.com/
Iza Romanowska at Aarhus University:
https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/iza-romanowska/
Hirad’s website:
https://hiradsab.com/
the Monetary Commons website:
https://monetarycommons.com/
Varoufakis, Y. (2024). Technofeudalism. What Killed Capitalism. Vintage Books.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451795/technofeudalism-by-varoufakis-yanis/9781529926095
Varoufakis, Y. (2021). Another Now. Melville House.
https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/another-now/
on the 2025 German ‘Sondervermögen’/‘The Special Fund for Infrastructure and Climate Neutrality’:
https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Web/EN/Issues/Public-Finances/SVIK/special-fund-infrastructure-and-climate-neutrality.html
on Wolfgang Schäuble:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Sch%C3%A4uble
Graeber, D. (2011). Debt. The first 5,000 Years. Melville House.
https://files.libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf
on IOU’s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOU
on the Money Market Multiplier:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_multiplier
on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s argument of the impossibility of a private language:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/private-language/
on the Digital Renminbi in China:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_renminbi
on Universal Basic Income (UBI):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income
Berry, C. (2023). The Case for a Universal Basic Dividend. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Policy Brief series 25.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/sites/bartlett/files/berry_c_2023._the_case_for_a_universal_basic_dividend.pdf
on fiat money:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
Varoufakis, Y. (2013). Bitcoin and the Dangerous Fantasy of ‘Apolitical’ Money.
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/04/22/bitcoin-and-the-dangerous-fantasy-of-apolitical-money/
on the case of Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge, being sanc
