I always slightly disliked Yanis Varoufakis. Strike that, actually I always thought he’s a bit of a clown. Motorbike-riding, leather-jacket-clad, attention-seeking, populist, arrogant clown.
David Graeber’s Debt is one of the best books I have read in my life.
It is a thorough historical and anthropological investigation into the nature of money and, nomen omen, debt.