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Radio 4,12 Oct 2017,28 mins

Capitalism in Crisis

The Briefing Room

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Is capitalism broken, and if so, what should replace it? David Aaronovitch examines whether the free market is failing, and asks how it could be reformed. He speaks to a range of experts and leading economists including: Paul Johnson, Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies Gillian Tett, US Managing Editor of the Financial Times Helen Thompson, Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University Michael Jacobs, co-editor of Rethinking Capitalism.

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