This page lists significant speeches in non-chronological order. Except for a few cases, audio and/or video is available.
Featured talk
Presenting the Modest Proposal in Berlin
- COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: 20 NOV 2011 – Video: The Global Minotaur: The Crash of 2008 and the Euro-Zone Crisis in Historical Perspective (introduced by Mark Mazower)
- EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: 8 DEC 2011 – Video: The Modest Proposal in the European Parliament: Yanis Varoufakis and Stuart Holland
- BERLIN – INET Conference: 13 APR 2012 – Video: Presenting the Modest Proposal in Berlin
- SEATTLE TOWN HALL: 20 NOV 2012 – Video: Debt Crises and the World Economy, Seattle Town Hall
- OECD, Paris: 30 MAR 2013 – My ‘Coffee’ with the General Secretary of the OECD, discussing the Global Crisis; plus a talk on the Global Crisis presented to OECD staffers (text only)
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, Eurozone Conference: 3 NOV 2011 – Video: Keynote speech “The Modest Proposal” (introduced by James Galbraith)
- TEDx Athens: 10 OCT 2011 – Video: A plan for a Decent_Europe
- LONDON – Foreign Press Association 2011 Awards Night: 24 NOV 2011 – End the European Blame Game! Keynote at the British Foreign Press Association’s 2011 Awards Night (no video/audio, just text)
- DUBLIN: 23 SEP 2011 – Understanding the Euro Crisis: A talk at the Shellbourne Hotel, Dublin
- OTTAWA, House of Commons: 26 JAN 2012 – ‘Canada’s Stark Options: Recovery or Regress?’
- COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL: 11 OCT 2012 – Audio: At Columbia Law School discussing the Causes and Nature of the Euro Crisis, 5th October 2012
- SYDNEY & MELBOURNE: OCT 2012 – Audio of two keynote speeches, both staged as ‘double-acts’ with Norman (Lord) Lamont, on the theme: ‘The Euro Crisis as a spectacular political failure’. Click here for the Sydney and here for the Melbourne talks.
- LONDON: HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT: 31 OCT 2012 – Keynote entitled “Those who despise the euro the most have the highest moral duty to help fix it!” (text only)
- VIENNA – Kreisky Forum: 7 DEC 2012 – Audio: Why have Europe’s social democrats surrendered to the toxic logic of current policies?
- ZAGREB: 14 MAY 2013 – Video: Confessions of an Erratic Marxist: Keynote speech
- OECD, Paris: 28 MAY 2013 – “Austerity vs. Growth – A False Dilemma?”, OECD FORUM
- MEXICO CITY- ITAM: 5 SEP 2013 – Audio: Global Banks as exporters of Permanent Credit Crunches to Peripheral Economies: The case of Mexico
- STATE LIBRARY OF NSW, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: 23 OCT 2013 – Inaugural EUROPE public lecture, Department of History, University of Western Sydney. “The Dirty War for Europe’s Integrity and Soul” You may also hear extracts of the talk on ABC Radio National’s BIG IDEAS program here
- MGSA KEYNOTE – 2013 – Audio: Being Greek and an Economist while Greece Burns: An intimate account – MGSA 2013 Keynote
- WISCONSIN: 24 FEB 2014 – Video – Austerity as a destabilising assault on the New Deal institutions: A joint presentation by J.K. Galbraith & Y. Varoufakis in the context of The George Kennan Distinguished Lecture Series, of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- CFA Institute KEYNOTE, Seattle: 5 MAY 2014 – Digital Economies: The future of markets, money, corporations and democratic politics
- Colloquium, LBJ School of Public Affairs: 6 NOV 2014 – Why is Europe not ‘coming together’ in the aftermath of the euro crisis? – audio
- German, Swiss and Austrian Pension Funds Meeting, Zurich: 30 OCT 2014 – Today’s Eurozone seen from an investor’s perspective – Keynote (audio)
- UC Berkeley, 7 NOV 2014 – The Aesthetics of Money after the Gold Standard – video
- Science&Society, 6 DEC 2014: Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century from a Marxist Perspective – audio