After almost deleting the original email from Gabe Newell, YanisVaroufakis accepted the post as in-house economist for gaming software powerhouse Valve Corporation.
Greek economist YanisVaroufakis says that the troika's diagnosis of the labor market is "utterly erroneous" and that the greatest challenge for employers is not a lack of cheap labor but a shortage of demand for their products.
Prof YanisVaroufakis, head of the Department of Economic Policy at the University of Athens, says that Turkey's experience of 15 years ago provides a stark lesson of what might happen if the country were to leave the euro.