Varoufakis on Valve, Spontaneous Order, and the European Crisis

Economist Yanis Varoufakis talks with host Russ Roberts about the unusual structure of the workplace at Valve Software. Valve, a software company that creates online video games, has no hierarchy or bosses. Teams of software designers join spontaneously to create and ship video games without any top-down supervision. Varoufakis discusses the economics of this Hayekian workplace and how it actually functions alongside Steam--an open gaming platform created by Valve. The conversation concludes with a discussion of the economic crisis in Europe.