Another Now
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Dispatches from an Alternative Present
Imagine it is 2025. Years earlier, in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, a global uprising has birthed a post-Capitalist world in which democracy, equality and justice are truly served.
In a thought-experiment of startling originality, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis offers a glimpse of this alternative reality. Through the eyes of three characters - a liberal ex-banker, a radical feminist and a maverick technologist - we see what would be needed to forge such a world, one without commercial banks or stock markets, where companies are collectively owned and housing and income are guaranteed, but also at what cost.
How to balance freedom with fairness? How to generate wealth while protecting the planet? How to encourage the best of humanity without unleashing the worst?
As radical in its form as in its vision, Another Now blends Platonic dialogue with speculative fiction to show how our answers to these questions shape our society, while helping us confront the one question that underpins them all: how far are we willing to go in pursuit of our ideals?
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Imprint: Bodley Head
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Published: 10/09/2020
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ISBN: 9781847925633
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Length: 240 Pages
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RRP: £16.99
Reviews
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The reason Varoufakis seems to have captured the imaginations of so many is that his words about the European crisis speak universal truths about democracy, capitalism and social policy
Guardian
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One of the most accurate and detailed descriptions of modern power ever written
Paul Mason (on Adults in the Room)
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Superbly written … he was – and is – right
Martin Wolf (on Adults in the Room)
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An important, terrifying must-read … Varoufakis has the greatest political virtues of all: courage and honesty
The Times (on Adults in the Room)
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Utterly accessibly, deeply humane and startlingly original
Naomi Klein (on Talking to My Daughter)
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One of my few heroes
Slavoj Zizek
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The most interesting man in the world
Business Insider
