His hectic schedule of meetings and visits to Paris, London, Rome, Frankfurt and Berlin may have kept the prolific social media-using Greek FinMin off the TL for a few days, however, on Wednesday afternoon Yanis Varoufakis squeezed in a tweet.

“…Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis – 3h 3 hours ago Lacking even the time to compose a thoughtful tweet, I defer to J.K. Galbraith’s Deutsche Welle article here: http://www.dw.de/the-great-greek-hope/a-18233193 …”

His tweet came in response to an article in DW by US economist J.K. Galbraith, reportedly a friend of Varoufakis’ from his passage at the famed University of Texas in Austin.

According to the eminent professor and economist, who writes frequently on economic topics, “it’s in the hands of European “players” to seek compromise, as Alexis Tsipras travels across Europe to support his request for debt relief.”

Varoufakis posted two more tweets dealing with the Adam Smith Institute, which, to his surprise, endorsed his proposals and called on George Osborne to support them.

“We live in a strange world. Adam Smith Institute calls on Osborne to back Varoufakis’s Greek debt-swap plan”, while in a second tweet on the same subject the Minister of Finance he tweets, “in the same sense that I never thought the Adam Smith Institute would endorse anything that comes from me. Still, profuse the folks at ASI”, he concluded.

Stepping back a bit to focus, it isn’t all that surprising, given that the Tweeter, Facebook, Google and the like are by far products of societies more influenced by Adam Smith than more “continental” theorists that followed in the next century.