The crisis in Europe is not over - it's getting worse. In this dramatic narrative of Europe's economic rise and spectacular fall, Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece and 'the emerging rock-star of Europe's anti-austerity uprising' (Telegraph), shows that the origins of the recent collapse go far deeper than our leaders are prepared to admit - and that we have done nothing so far to fix them. In 2008, the universe of Western finance outgrew planet Earth. When Wall Street imploded, a death embrace between insolvent banks and bankrupt states consumed Europe. Half a dozen national economies imploded and several more came close. But the storm is far from over...From the aftermath of the Second World War to the present, Varoufakis recounts how the Eurozone emerged not as route to shared prosperity but as a pyramid scheme of debt with countries such as Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain at its bottom. Its woeful design ensured that collapse would be inevitable and catastrophic. But since the hurricane landed Europe's leaders have chosen a cocktail of more debt and harsh austerity rather than reform, ensuring that the weakest citizens of the weakest nations pay the price for the bankers' mistakes, while doing nothing to prevent the next collapse. Instead, the principle of the greatest austerity for those suffering the greatest recessions has led to a resurgence of racist extremism. Once more, Europe is a potent threat to global stability. Drawing on the personal experience of his own negotiations with the Eurozone's financiers and offering concrete policies and alternatives, Varoufakis shows how we concocted this mess and how we can get out of it. And The Weak Suffer What They Must? reminds us of our history in order to save European capitalism from itself.
Yanis Varoufakis is the Professor of Economics at the University of Athens, Visiting Professor at the University of Texas, and Economist-in-residence for Valve Corporation. Born in Athens, 1961, Varoufakis completed his secondary education in Greece before moving to England where he read mathematics and economics at the Universities of Essex and Birmingham. He has taught at various British Universities (Essex, East Anglia, Cambridge, Glasgow), and spent twelve years teaching at the University of Sydney (Australia). Recently, he has emerged as an active participant in the debates over the Global, European and Greek Crises as well as a co-founder of www.vitalspace.org
He was a member of the Parliament of Greece between January and September 2015. He represented the ruling Syriza party and held the position of Minister of Finance for seven months. He voted against the terms of the third bailout package for Greece.
我必須承認,這部作品在探討某些社會議題時,其銳利程度讓我感到有些不適,但正是這種不適感,纔彰顯瞭它真正的價值。它沒有給你提供任何廉價的安慰劑或者容易消化的答案,相反,它像一把冰冷的手術刀,毫不留情地剖開瞭某些我們習慣性迴避的社會肌理和人性弱點。作者似乎對“正義”和“救贖”這兩個概念持有一種極其審慎乃至懷疑的態度,他筆下的人物,無論多麼努力地想要做齣“正確”的選擇,最終似乎都逃脫不瞭某種宿命般的循環。這種深刻的悲觀主義色彩,並沒有讓作品淪為消極的說教,反而因為其徹底的坦誠而具有瞭一種近乎崇高的力量。它讓你在閤上書本之後,依然會忍不住去反思:在某些根本性的衝突麵前,我們究竟有多少真正的選擇權?這份沉甸甸的思考負荷,正是區分優秀作品和平庸之作的關鍵所在。
评分老實說,這本書的結構設計簡直是教科書級彆的示範,它打破瞭傳統綫性敘事的桎梏,以一種近乎碎片化卻又無比嚴密的方式,將時間綫巧妙地交織在一起。初讀時,可能會有一點點迷失方嚮的感覺,仿佛置身於一個巨大的、結構復雜的建築群中,需要不斷地在不同的房間和樓層之間穿梭。但正是這種看似混亂的布局,最終匯聚成一個令人拍案叫絕的整體圖景。作者高超的技巧在於,他總能在最恰當的時機拋齣一個新的綫索,或者迴溯到一個看似不相關的舊場景,讓讀者在“啊,原來如此!”的恍然大悟中,重新審視之前閱讀過的一切。這種閱讀體驗,更像是參與一場需要高度專注力的偵探遊戲,而不是被動地接受故事。它對讀者的智力參與度要求很高,但迴報也是豐厚的,那種解開層層謎團後的滿足感,是許多平庸作品無法給予的。
评分這本書的另一個亮點在於其對“空間”和“物質性”的細緻描摹。作者筆下的每一個場景,不僅僅是故事發生的背景,它們本身仿佛就擁有瞭獨立的生命和記憶。無論是某間布滿灰塵的檔案室,還是在雨中顯得格外模糊的城市街道,這些環境元素都被賦予瞭強烈的象徵意義,與人物的內心世界形成瞭復雜的互文關係。我甚至能想象齣那些場景的真實氣味和觸感,這種高度的感官沉浸感,是很多隻注重情節推進的小說所缺乏的。這種對細節的執著,使得整個故事的質感達到瞭一個非常高的水準,讓讀者仿佛不是在閱讀,而是在親身經曆和觸摸著這個由文字構建的世界。它展現瞭一種對敘事載體的尊重,即將環境本身視為一個不可或缺的敘述者,與其他角色平等對話。
评分這本書的敘事節奏把握得恰到好處,簡直像一部精心編排的交響樂。作者似乎對人性深處的幽微和復雜有著近乎偏執的洞察力,使得每一個角色的掙紮與抉擇都顯得那麼真實可信,甚至帶著一種令人不安的預言性。我尤其欣賞它在處理道德睏境時的那種不動聲色的力量,沒有刻意的煽情,卻能在不經意間擊中人心最柔軟的部分。讀到某些情節時,我甚至不得不放下書本,走到窗邊,讓冷冽的空氣提醒我,這並非僅僅是虛構的文字堆砌,而是某種深刻的、關於存在本身的探討。文字的密度很高,信息量卻處理得極其流暢,初讀時或許會感覺需要集中全部注意力去捕捉那些稍縱即逝的細節,但一旦沉浸其中,那種被引導著深入迷宮深處的快感便難以言喻。它不像那種直白的、將所有觀點強加於讀者的作品,而是更像一位高明的棋手,每走一步都留有餘地,讓讀者自己去填補那些留白之處,從而形成一種強烈的共創體驗。這種閱讀過程本身,就是一種智力上的享受和對自身認知邊界的拓展。
评分這部作品的語言風格,用“冷峻的詩意”來形容或許最為貼切。它沒有堆砌華麗辭藻,但每一個詞語的選擇都像是經過韆錘百煉的,精準地嵌入到它應該在的位置,産生齣一種獨特的張力和迴響。我特彆留意到作者在描繪環境和氛圍時所使用的那些極簡主義的筆觸,它們寥寥數語,卻構建起一個宏大而又令人窒息的世界觀。這種敘事上的剋製,反而帶來瞭更強烈的衝擊力,如同暴風雨來臨前的寂靜,你知道在平靜之下蘊藏著多麼可怕的力量。我仿佛能聞到文字中散發齣的那種陳舊的氣息,感受到那些人物在曆史的洪流中掙紮時所承受的重量。它迫使我不斷地去思考,文字與現實之間,究竟存在著怎樣一種微妙的、常常被我們忽略的關聯性。每一次翻頁,都像是在揭開一層覆蓋在真相之上的灰塵,雖然過程緩慢,但每一次的發現都令人心潮澎湃。
评分an outspoken left-wing economist incorporates his experience as a short-lived finance minister of greece and puts forth solutions he thinks may start a healing process of a sick and failing capitalist global system in progress, an easy and interesting read
评分an outspoken left-wing economist incorporates his experience as a short-lived finance minister of greece and puts forth solutions he thinks may start a healing process of a sick and failing capitalist global system in progress, an easy and interesting read
评分an outspoken left-wing economist incorporates his experience as a short-lived finance minister of greece and puts forth solutions he thinks may start a healing process of a sick and failing capitalist global system in progress, an easy and interesting read
评分an outspoken left-wing economist incorporates his experience as a short-lived finance minister of greece and puts forth solutions he thinks may start a healing process of a sick and failing capitalist global system in progress, an easy and interesting read
评分an outspoken left-wing economist incorporates his experience as a short-lived finance minister of greece and puts forth solutions he thinks may start a healing process of a sick and failing capitalist global system in progress, an easy and interesting read
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