S03E57 - Yanis Varoufakis and Raphael Arar on the Monetary Commons
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Archäologie des Geldes: Schuldscheine statt Tausch
Yanis beschreibt frühe Mesopotamien-Belege: Geld als Schuld-IOU und historische Schuldenerlasse.
Yanis Varoufakis and Raphael Arar discuss the Monetary Commons.
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Shownotes
Yanis’ website:
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/
Raphael’s website:
Iza Romanowska at Aarhus University:
https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/iza-romanowska/
Hirad’s website:
the Monetary Commons website:
Varoufakis, Y. (2024). Technofeudalism. What Killed Capitalism. Vintage Books.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451795/technofeudalism-by-varoufakis-yanis/9781529926095
Varoufakis, Y. (2021). Another Now. Melville House.
https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/another-now/
on the 2025 German ‘Sondervermögen’/‘The Special Fund for Infrastructure and Climate Neutrality’:
on Wolfgang Schäuble:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Sch%C3%A4uble
Graeber, D. (2011). Debt. The first 5,000 Years. Melville House.
https://files.libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf
on IOU’s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOU
on the Money Market Multiplier:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_multiplier
on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s argument of the impossibility of a private language:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/private-language/
on the Digital Renminbi in China:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_renminbi
on Universal Basic Income (UBI):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income
Berry, C. (2023). The Case for a Universal Basic Dividend. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Policy Brief series 25.
on fiat money:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
Varoufakis, Y. (2013). Bitcoin and the Dangerous Fantasy of ‘Apolitical’ Money.
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/04/22/bitcoin-and-the-dangerous-fantasy-of-apolitical-money/
on the case of Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge, being sanctioned by the US:
on the distributed ledger technology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_ledger
Mau, S. (2023). Mute Compulsion. A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2759-mute-compulsion
McCarthy, M. A. (2025). The Master's Tools. How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It). Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/755-the-master-s-tools
Sorg, C. (2025). Finance as a Form of Economic Planning. Competition & Change, 29(1), 17-37.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10245294231217578
on citizen’s assemblies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_assembly
on the International Monetary Fund (IMF):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund
on the Digital Euro:
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.html
the essay that includes the quote by Peter Thiel on the incompatibility of liberalism/capitalism and democracy:
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/
on the Meidner Plan:
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/sweden-socialism-rehn-meidner-plan
on the Trump administration buying 10% of Intel shares:
on Cloud Capital (see also Yanis’ ‘Technofeudalism’ book):
https://youtu.be/3gsGvgrsyOU?si=fQwW5BEHBFDvB980
on Ursula K. Le Guin:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin
the speech including the mentioned quote by her:
https://youtu.be/Et9Nf-rsALk?si=VCGW4OoDqY0HXa2E
on the 1973 Coup in Chile:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory
on Fernando Haddad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Haddad
on pix:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(payment_system)
on the 2008 financial crisis in Iceland:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932011_Icelandic_financial_crisis
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https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e59-joscha-wullweber-zu-zentralbankkapitalismus/
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