Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy

or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

By
Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis,
Jacob Moe
Jacob Moe(Translator)
2013 • 224 pages

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