A Number One Sunday Times Bestseller
What happens when
you take on the establishment? In Adults in the Room, the
renowned economist and former finance minister of Greece Yanis
Varoufakis gives the full, blistering account of his momentous clash
with the mightiest economic and political forces on earth.
After being swept
into power with the left-wing Syriza party, Varoufakis attempts to
renegotiate Greece's relationship with the EU--and sparks a
spectacular battle with global implications. Varoufakis's new
position sends him ricocheting between mass demonstrations in Athens,
closed-door negotiations in drab EU and IMF offices, and furtive
meetings with power brokers in Washington, D.C. He consults and
quarrels with Barack Obama, Emmanuel Macron, Christine Lagarde, the
economists Larry Summers and Jeffrey Sachs, and others, as he
struggles to resolve Greece's debt crisis without resorting to
punishing austerity measures. But despite the mass support of the
Greek people and the simple logic of Varoufakis's arguments, he
succeeds only in provoking the fury of Europe's elite.
Varoufakis's
unvarnished memoir is an urgent warning that the economic policies
once embraced by the EU and the White House have failed--and spawned
authoritarianism, populist revolt, and instability throughout the
Western world. Adults in the Room is an extraordinary tale of
brinkmanship, hypocrisy, collusion, and betrayal that will shake the
global establishment to its foundations.