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Yanis Varoufakis on Valve, Spontaneous Order, and the European Crisis
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Length:
63 minutes
Released:
Feb 25, 2013
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Podcast episode
Description
Yanis Varoufakis of the University of Athens, the University of Texas, and former economist-in-residence at Valve Software talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the unusual structure of the workplace at Valve. Valve, a software company that creates online video games, has no hierarchy or bosses. Teams of software designers join spontaneously to create and ship video games without any top-down supervision. Varoufakis discusses the economics of this Hayekian workplace and how it actually functions alongside Steam--an open gaming platform created by Valve. The conversation concludes with a discussion of the economic crisis in Europe.
Released:
Feb 25, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode
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