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Perhaps we were too distracted by the pandemic, or the endless financial crises, or the rise of TikTok. But under cover of them all, a new and more exploitative system has been taking hold. Insane sums of money that were supposed to re-float our economies after the crash of 2008 went to big tech instead. With it they funded the construction of their private cloud fiefdoms and privatized the internet. Technofeudalism says Yanis Varoufakis, is the new power that is reshaping our lives and the world, and is the greatest current threat to the liberal individual, to our efforts to avert climate catastrophe--and to democracy itself. Drawing on stories from Greek myth and pop culture, from Homer to Mad Men, Varoufakis explains this revolutionary transformation: how it enslaves our minds, how it rewrites the rules of global power, and, ultimately, what it will take overthrow it

1. Introduction -- 2. Laboratories of the future -- 3. The Global Plan -- 4. The Global Minotaur -- 5. The Beast's Handmaidens -- 6. Crash -- 7. The Handmaidens Strike Back -- 8. The Minotaur's Global Legacy: The Dimming Sun, the Wounded Tigers, a Flighty Europa and an Anxious Dragon -- 9. A future without the Minotaur?

Part one: Winters of our discontent. Introduction ; Bailoutistan ; They bend their tongues like their bows ; Treading water ; Raging against the dying of the light -- Part two: Invincible spring. It begins ... ; Auspicious February ; The frenzy before the storm ; A moment to savour, darkly ; Unmasked ; Whittling our spring ; Merkel's spell ; The right stuff, foiled ; The cruellest month -- Part three: Endgame. Countdown to perdition ; Adults in the room ; Lions led by donkeys -- Epilogue.

Cover -- Title -- About This Book -- About the Author -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Preface to the New Edition -- A flighty Europa and an anxious dragon -- A world without the Minotaur? -- Postcript to the New Edition -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Select Bibliography -- The Global Minotaur

1. Introduction : economic indeterminacy and the dance of the meta-axioms : the dynamic mechanism by which neoclassical economics turns defeat at the hands of indeterminacy into unassailable dominance -- 2. Unity is strength : it is also the cause of indeterminacy regarding the wage and employment preferences of employers and trades unions -- 3. Rational conflict : on the impossibility of a determinate theory of costly disagreement -- 4. No bluffing please, we are economists! Why bluffs and other subversive acts preclude determinate game theoretical analyses -- 5. Bargaining by rules of thumb : when strategic indeterminacy forces the rational negotiator to fall back on myopic rules of thumb -- 6. Marxists and the sirens' song : when disgruntled Marxists reach for neoclassical economics' toolbox they get more than they bargained for -- 7. A theory of solidarity : why indeterminacy is a prerequisite for genuine solidarity -- 8. On the power of what others think : how indeterminacy explodes when our preferences are influenced directly by other people's beliefs -- 9. The social foundations of corruption : on the indeterminate power of what others think -- 10. Evolving morals in the laboratory : the roots of distributional justice principles in indeterminacy -- 11. Evolving domination in the laboratory : the spontaneous creation of hierarchies and the patterned beliefs that support them -- 12. On the distinction between evolution and history : the impossibility of modelling behavioural mutations amongst political animals -- 13. Conclusion : dealing with indeterminacy on the stage of social life.