Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister

eldavojohn writes A turnover in the Greek government resulted from recent snap elections placing SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) in power — just shy of an outright majority by two seats. Atheist, and youngest Prime Minister in Greek history since 1865, Alexis Tsipras has been appointed the new prime minister and begun taking immediate drastic steps against the recent austerity laws put in place by prior administrations. One such step has been to appoint Valve's economist Yanis Varoufakis to position of Finance Minister of Greece. For the past three years Varoufakis has been working at Steam to analyze and improve the Steam Market but now has the opportunity to improve one of the most troubled economies in the world.

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Not sure it's a good job choice

[daninaustin]

Greece is seriously screwed and the election of the communists is only going to make things worse. On the resume this is going to look about as appealing as the entry for the guy who designed the brown zune.

Looks like a good choice by the Greeks

[Anonymous Coward]

It will be good to see Greece moving away from policies that were deliberately designed to keep creditors afloat, when banks irresponsibly lent them un-repayable amounts of credit. Hopefully Greece will now default, and shut down the insolvent banks.
Europe's most successful era was that of the application of socialist policies. The corrupt neo-liberal bank/frauster mentality needs to be eradicated, and a return to socialist values implemented.
I don't understand the mention that their leader is an atheist. I guess that most people with normal levels of brain power will be, given that believing in witches, gobblins, santa claus, the tooth fairy, god, mohamud, trolls, or jesus is just supersitious mumbo-jumbo. Surely nobody intelligent enough to rise to a position of real political power (at least not in a democratic country), is going to be stupid enough to believe any of that contemptibly childish nonsense.

Re:This doesn't sound... sound

[AchilleTalon]

Economics isn't an ideology. Are you retarded or just ignorant? You are telling us about Greenspan's policies. Policies aren't economics, they are policies, they are politics and they are ideologies. But economics isn't an ideology. And of course it is interwined with politics, it doesn't mean at all it is an ideology. What you are saying is like saying physics is just mathematics.

You are just refraining complains from social science people who do not understand anything about economics because it requires some knowledge of math. And again, it is like you are saying physics cannot be a science because there is many unproven theories that coexists. Frankly, you are an idiot.