Episode
Europe’s China trap & capitalism’s AI death knell
- Podcast
- The Econoclasts
- Published
- May 26, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 2265
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Summary
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the mainstream economic orthodoxies surrounding Europe's aggressive tariff strategy against China while simultaneously warning that the rise of AI and Big Tech is not the future of market capitalism but rather its death knell, as centralised platforms trap society in a new era of techno-feudalism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.