Technofeudalism

What an amazing piece of work this is. Ground-breaking, thought-provoking and highly accessible. Everyone should read it. This is where were going. The dark, scary, exciting song of our age. 100 out of 100 -- IRVINE WELSH An 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 * 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 BLAKELEY A 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 ZIZEK

Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, political leader and the author of numerous bestselling books: Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism; 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.