Varoufakis interview opens Guardian series on democracy and market power
The first episode of The Guardian’s Radical Thinking examines who holds power and recalls Varoufakis’s experience during the eurozone crisis.
The Guardian has launched Radical Thinking, a new podcast series, with senior economics commentator Aditya Chakrabortty interviewing former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis.
The episode centres on a question of political authority: whether power rests with the people or with markets. The supplied material does not detail how the interview answers that question.
Chakrabortty also asks Varoufakis about his experience during the eurozone crisis, when he went head to head with people seeking to stop his reforms.
The Guardian’s headline uses the phrase “There’s no such thing as democracy”, but the available episode summary does not provide the context needed to establish it as a direct quotation or explain its meaning.
