书籍介绍
这不是一本为希腊辩护的经济报告，而是一场理想主义者在权力密室里的独白。作者以财长身份亲历危机谈判，却把笔墨更多留给“局内人”与“局外人”的残酷分野：真正做决定的人彼此守口如瓶，而说出真相的人只配被忽视。书中那些近乎荒诞的细节——部长砍掉自己部门高管的薪水、临别官员眼中闪过的“欧洲尚未死亡”的希望——让读者看见的，是原则在谈判桌前如何被反复称重、让步、最终搁置。它最引争议处，正是作者始终如一的“我是对的”姿态：有人读来热血沸腾，有人嫌其视角单一、把政治写成悲情剧。正因如此，它适合那些不愿只接受结论、而想看清结论如何被一步步制造出来的人。
作者简介
雅尼斯•瓦鲁法克斯（Yanis Varoufakis），希腊经济学家。1961年生于雅典，在英国接受高等教育并取得经济学博士学位。后长期在英国、澳大利亚、希腊和美国的大学任教。2015年参加希腊议会选举，当选议员后于当年1月到7月任财政部长，负责处理本国主权债务危机。2018年，创立希腊反对党欧洲现实不服从阵线（MeRA25，现为希腊议会席位数排名第六的政党），自任党首。
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核心看点
- 希腊前财长亲历主权债务危机谈判内幕
- 揭露欧盟内部大国博弈与小国困境
- 剖析国际政治中利益至上无道义逻辑
读者共识
- 提供珍贵的局内人一手视角
- 叙事精彩如政治版纸牌屋
- 部分读者认为篇幅冗长且视角单一
精彩摘录
- "‘There are two kinds of politicians,’ he said: ‘insiders and outsiders. The outsiders prioritize their freedom to speak their version of the truth. The price of their freedom is that they are ignored by the insiders, who make the important decisions. The insiders, for their part, follow a sacrosanct"
- "Feeling he needed to wrap up his soliloquy, he rushed to the one thing he wanted from me: I want to implore you to promise me something. I know you will win the election. I talk to people on the street and there is no doubt that you will. Please, when you win, when you are in office, remember those "
- "In very good English he asked permission to address me. ‘Of course,’ I said. ‘Minister,’ he said, ‘I want you to know that what you are doing is very important – not only for your country but also for us. You are giving us hope that there is a chance that we shall be liberated too.’ Whenever I hear "
- "If you cannot imagine walking out of a negotiation, you should never enter it. If you cannot fathom the idea of an impasse you might as well confine yourself to the role of a supplicant who implores the despot to grant him several privileges but who accepts in the final analysis whatever the despot "
- "I recall something my father said to me when he realized that, at a young age, I was becoming enthusiastic about left-wing politics. ‘When I was in the concentration camp as a communist,’ he said, ‘I knew that, had our side won the civil war, I would be in the same camp only with different guards.’ "
- "I witnessed first hand what I can only describe as a naked class war that targeted the weak and scandalously favoured the ruling class. It came to my attention, for example, that some of the employees in my ministry, specifically the chair, CEO and members of the board of the Hellenic Financial Stab"
- "Over the winter and spring of 2016 I puzzled many friends in the UK with my campaign against Brexit. ‘How can you tell us to stay in the EU after the way Greece has been treated?’ they would protest. ‘We want our country back!’ was their wholly legitimate demand. ‘So do we,’ I would respond. But to "
- "There are two kinds of politicians, insiders and outsiders. The outsiders prioritize their freedom to speak their version of the truth. The price of their freedom is that they are ignored by the insiders, who make the important decisions. The insiders, for their part, follow a sacrosanct rule: never"
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用户评论
此时方懂李中堂啊。有不同的对手，有不同的队友，这些人是助力还是阻力，在那复杂的环境里随时在变化，最后如何努力如何博弈，即使个人一腔热血，孤勇向前，但最后所呈现的结果，却离最初的设想千百里之外了。建议跟《欧洲悲剧》一起看，就知道，希腊的悲剧和境地，真的不是作者这样一个经济学家独自可以搞定的啊！更别说欧盟的官僚主义，各国的各有目的
表面上看是“希腊政府无赖”、“希腊国民劣根性”，实际上是欧洲内部政治经济文化长期发展不平衡的局部爆发，如果不妥善解决，没准儿欧元也只是过客
欠债者唯有赖账才可重生。于是作者在资本主义框架下为破产小国进行技术抗争而非革命。小国寡民，终归失败。书好厚，非民主国下的读者涨见闻了。
这真的是我不充vip就可以看的吗？以后该做个局外人书单，铭记那些虽然也是为了自己的表达欲，却为世人真诚录下此刻后台纷物的志愿者。
Power concedes nothing. If you don’t demand true equality, you are always going to be begging for a few crumbs from pie, trading for an empty promise!
政治人物分为两种，局内人和局外人。局外人重视自由，认为他们有权说出自己看到的真相。这种自由的代价是，他们被掌握重要决策权的局内人忽视。局内人则奉行一条神圣不可侵犯的规则：不要与其他局内人作对，永远不要对局外人透露局内人的言行。回报是获得内幕消息，有机会对人和结局施加影响。政治博弈的结局不取决于谁拥有真理，而取决于谁掌握局面。
一个故事，一段亲历者说。和欧洲悲剧结合起来，一个宏观，一个微观。
一个房间外的人试图力挽狂澜，但政客们并不以解决问题为目标，他只能眼看着自己深爱的国家和人民跌入炼狱。被敌人攻击不可怕，可怕的是战友的背叛。突然明白为何自古以来改革大多以失败告终，因为不是每个商鞅都能遇到自己的秦孝公。
看这本书的确需要不少经济学理论，不然阅读起来真挺累的。不得不说，这本回忆录真实的反映了当代社会上的很多问题，以及民众面对选择时所显现的道德标准。同时也很好奇书中这些官员的内心活动，要是他们以后写回忆录的话估计也会很好看！
英雄主义叙事。和杨白劳异曲同工之妙的欠债不还钱照样天经地义。
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