S03E57 - Yanis Varoufakis and Raphael Arar on the Monetary Commons

Yanis Varoufakis and Raphael Arar discuss the Monetary Commons.


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Shownotes


Yanis’ website:


https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/


Raphael’s website:


https://rarar.com/


Iza Romanowska at Aarhus University:


https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/iza-romanowska/


Hirad’s website:


https://hiradsab.com/


the Monetary Commons website:


https://monetarycommons.com/


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’:


https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Web/EN/Issues/Public-Finances/SVIK/special-fund-infrastructure-and-climate-neutrality.html


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.


https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/sites/bartlett/files/berry_c_2023._the_case_for_a_universal_basic_dividend.pdf


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:


https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-french-icc-judge-sanctioned-by-the-us-you-are-effectively-blacklisted-by-much-of-the-world-s-banking-system_6747628_4.html


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:


https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-economic-and-policy-experts-think-about-the-u-s-governments-stake-in-intel


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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Episode Keywords


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#FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational,
#futurehistoriesinternational, #MonetaryCommons, #Commons,
#Transition, #Capitalism, #Socialism, #Narratives, #MMT,
#CentralBanks, #MoneyCreation, #Commoning, #Finance