Another Now

A Novel

De: Yanis Varoufakis

Narrado por: Kevin Kenerly

Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No billionaires.

Imagine if Occupy and Extinction Rebellion actually won.

In Another Now, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis shows us what such a world would look like. Far from being a fantasy, he describes how it could have come about—and might yet. But would we really want it?

Varoufakis’s boundary-breaking new book confounds expectations of what the good society would look like and reveals the uncomfortable truth about our desire for a better world …

©2021 Yanis Varoufakis (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

Intriguing exploration of an alternative world

a philosophical novel like this can easily become wooden and contrived like those of an Ayn Rand novel, but Varoufakis builds sympathetic and credible characters.

Solutions!

A predominant critique of lefties, is that we are all bark no bite, that is all critique, no problem solving. This book, as well as any I’ve read, explores the solutions to the disease of capitalism. It engages with the lazy critiques against worker-owned enterprise, and displays how they can work on a global scale. It theorizes a replacement to our nanny domestic banking systems, as well as our predatory global banking system (IMF). Splendid work Mr. Varoufakis!

Brilliant

A fresh commentary on global systems and economics cleverly packaged in a story of a dynamic friendship with just enough science fiction to appetize the futurist in me. Well done, Yanis.

Thought-Provoking!

Will really make you think about the supposed inevitability of society’s ills. Has a fun sci-fi conceit. Narrator is excellent.

Fascinating description of an alternative economy

Drawing together the history of Atlantic capitalism over the past 45 years and the more recent dominance of the technology sector, this book makes a sting case for a variety of peaceful transformations that would better protect human dignity, health, and freedom and the life of the planet. Interestingly, this picture is no utopia, as this transformation falls short of extending full justice and equality.

Warped political motivation isn’t good fiction.

I gave up reading this book due to all of the political agendas. It just didn’t work for me.

Mental Masturbation

“Everything would be perfect if everything was exactly as I want it to be. “ I went in to this optimistically for the unique premise and hopeful for the potential of a new paradigm. By 1/3 through, I was confused by the author’s bizarre choices in naming characters and reliance on far fetched human behavior to convey the alternative universe. Each of these reflects a sense that the author believes they are being understood about something obvious to all which is truly only present his own imagination.

Waste of my time and a credit

A dream book for socialist. The author has no prior education on history, global economics, or science. The first few chapters are complaining of capitalism. The main character is a Marxist who wants to gulag imprison other Marxist and lesbian who sleeps with men to upset other lesbians.
The main character sounds so out of touch that she has no definitive morals. The character delivering the story is easily influenced by the idea of having no ownership of anything and having collective lower income and long term internet over individual gain and power. A majority of the sentences could be completely left out and not change a thing about the story line. Again, not a great book.