The Critic Magazine

Preposterous pipedreams

SOMEONE MUST HAVE TOLD Yanis Varoufakis that stories are more engaging than arguments. Another Now explains his proposals for a new anti-capitalist economic order, not in the dry style of a political economy monograph but through science fiction.

Alas, it is difficult to dramatise the case for compelling workers to run companies; for abolishing stock markets, commercial banks, credit rating agencies and the private ownership of land; for introducing a universal basic income; for eliminating all taxes except corporation and land taxes; and for punishing pairs of countries that do not import an equal value of

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