James Bartholomew

Degrees in disaster

From Nehru’s India to Varoufakis’s Greece, the trendy doctrines of our universities have much to answer for

issue 25 July 2015

So farewell, Yanis Varoufakis. You used to be Greece’s finance minister. Then you resigned, or were you sacked? You took control of the Greek economy six months ago when it was growing. Yes, honestly! Growth last year ran at 0.8 per cent, with forecasts of 3 per cent this year.

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