There are thousands of economists who know their stuff, probably even more than Varoufakis, who spent the last decade doing a lot more politics not economics. (

There are thousands of economists who know their stuff, probably even more than Varoufakis, who spent the last decade doing a lot more politics not economics. (And that might be a lot more important for navigating the situation in Argentina, but then that just means there are likely even better candidates who know more about Argentina than Varoufakis.)