Costas Panayotakis is an economist, sociologist, ecologist, writer, activist, playwright and actor.  He is the author of Remaking Scarcity: From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy, and he talks here with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about how austerity policies are destroying the economies of Greece and other countries, and what working people need to do to respond.  Here is Costas and friends performing as "Austerity Nuts" on the New York Subway.