Profile: Yanis Varoufakis

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Age: 53

Appearance: Rough around the edges, but charismatic

Newsworthiness: The new Greek finance minister is on a road trip to help reduce his country's debt pile

‘Despite their highly impressive labels and technical appearance, economic models were merely mathematised versions of the touching superstition that markets know best, both at times of tranquillity and in periods of tumult,” wrote the new Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis in his book The Global ...