Yanis Varoufakis is a Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Athens in Greece, where he presently resides after more than two decades of studying and teaching in the United Kingdom and Australia (where he had academic positions at the Universities of Sydney, Glasgow, Cambridge, and East Anglia, in that order). This is his debut book for a general audience. Rational Conflict (1991), Foundations of Economics (1998), and Game Theory: A Critical Text (2004) (with Shaun Hargreaves Heap).Yanis Varoufakis is Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Athens, Greece, where he presently lives after more than two decades of studying and teaching in the United Kingdom and Australia (where he had academic postings, in reverse order, at the University of Melbourne and the University of Sydney). This is his debut book for a general audience. Rational Conflict (1991), Foundations of Economics (1998), and Game Theory: A Critical Text (2004) (with Shaun Hargreaves Heap) are among his more scholarly works.