In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s fo r mer finance minister a nd the autho r of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, a nd co r ruption of wo r ld economics.

Yanis Varoufakis has appeared befo r e heads of nations, assemblies of experts, a nd countless students around the wo r ld. Now, he faces his most impo r tant—a nd difficult—audience yet. Using clear language a nd vivid examples, Varoufakis offers a series of letters to his young daughter about the economy: how it operates, wh ere it came fr om, how it benefits some while impoverishing others. Taking bankers a nd politicians to task, he explains the histo r ical o r igins of inequality among a nd within nations, questions the pervasive notion that everything has its price, a nd shows why economic instability is a chronic risk. Finally, he discusses the inability of market-driven policies to address the rapidly declining health of the planet his daughter’s generation sta nds to inherit.

Throughout, Varoufakis wears his expertise lightly. He writes as a parent whose aim is to instruct his daughter on the fundamental questions of our age—a nd through that knowledge, to equip her against the failures a nd obfuscations of our current system a nd point the way toward a mo r e democratic alternative.