Realistic Utopias versus Dystopic Realities: Reflections on writing about an alternative economic present. Yanis Varoufakis' last book was addressed to his teenage daughter. It offered her a simple, though not simplistic, account on how capitalism works and how it fails. Critics, correctly, pointed out that the book's criticisms of capitalism (couched in parables borrowed from literature, theatre and science fiction) never really answered the pressing question: 'But what's the alternative?...