Yanis Varoufakis and Raphael Arar on the Monetary Commons

Yanis Varoufakis and Raphael Arar discuss the Monetary Commons.Find the feed of English episodes only here: https://www.futurehistories-international.com/You can also import the RSS feed to your favorite app: https://www.futurehistories-international.com/feed.xml ShownotesYanis’ 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/9781529926095Varoufakis, 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.htmlon Wolfgang Schäuble:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Sch%C3%A4ubleGraeber, D. (2011). Debt. The first 5,000 Years. Melville House.https://files.libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdfon IOU’s:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOUon the Money Market Multiplier:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_multiplieron 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_renminbion Universal Basic Income (UBI):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_incomeBerry, 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.pdfon fiat money:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_moneyVaroufakis, 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.htmlon the distributed ledger technology:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_ledgerMau, S. (2023). Mute Compulsion. A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital. Verso.https://www.versobooks.com/products/2759-mute-compulsionMcCarthy, 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-toolsSorg, C. (2025). Finance as a Form of Economic Planning. Competition & Change, 29(1), 17-37.https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10245294231217578on citizen’s assemblies:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_assemblyon the International Monetary Fund (IMF):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Monetary_Fundon the Digital Euro:https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.htmlthe 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-planon 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-intelon Cloud Capital (see also Yanis’ ‘Technofeudalism’ book):https://youtu.be/3gsGvgrsyOU?si=fQwW5BEHBFDvB980on Ursula K. Le Guin:https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guinthe speech including the mentioned quote by her:https://youtu.be/Et9Nf-rsALk?si=VCGW4OoDqY0HXa2Eon the 1973 Coup in Chile:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9taton Modern Monetary Theory (MMT):https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theoryon Fernando Haddad:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Haddadon 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_crisisFuture Histories Episodes on Related TopicsS3E29 | Nancy Fraser on Alternatives to Capitalismhttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e29-nancy-fraser-on-alternatives-to-capitalism/S03E21 | Christoph Sorg zu Finanzwirtschaft als Planunghttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e21-christoph-sorg-zu-finanzwirtschaft-als-planung/S03E19 | Wendy Brown on Socialist Governmentalityhttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e19-wendy-brown-on-socialist-governmentality/S02E34 | tante zu Crypto-Imaginaries und alternativen technologischen Infrastrukturenhttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e34-tante-zu-crypto-imaginaries-und-alternativen-technologischen-infrastrukturen/S02E28 | Marcus Meindel zum Global Commoning Systemhttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e28-marcus-meindel-zum-global-commoning-system/S01E59 | Joscha Wullweber zu Zentralbankkapitalismushttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e59-joscha-wullweber-zu-zentralbankkapitalismus/S01E34 | Aaron Sahr zu monetärer Souveränität und Modern Monetary Theory (Teil 2)https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e34-aaron-sahr-zu-monetaerer-souveraenitaet-und-modern-monetary-theory-teil-2/S01E33 | Aaron Sahr zu monetärer Souveränität und Modern Monetary Theory (Teil 1)https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e33-aaron-sahr-zu-monetaerer-souveraenitaet-und-modern-monetary-theory-teil-1/  Future Histories Contact & SupportIf you like Future Histories, please consider supporting us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistoriesContact: [email protected]: https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/futurehpodcast/Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@FutureHistoriesEnglish webpage:https://futurehistories-international.com Episode Keywords#YanisVaroufakis, #RaphaelArar #JanGroos, #Interview, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #futurehistoriesinternational, #MonetaryCommons, #Commons, #Transition, #Capitalism, #Socialism, #Narratives, #MMT, #CentralBanks, #MoneyCreation, #Commoning, #Finance