Zed's free ebook for Greek finance minister

Radical publisher Zed Books is to publish extracts from Yanis Varoufakis' The Global Minotaur as a free ebook tomorrow (28th January), after the author's appointment as finance minister of Greece. Varoufakis has been given the post by new prime minister Alexis Tsipras, following the electoral triumph of anti-austerity party Syriza. The finance minister will have the role of negotiating on the country's debt mountain. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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