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World Service,29 Feb 2012,18 mins

Alternatives to capitalism

Business Daily

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Has capitalism failed - and if so what comes next? Justin Rowlatt puts that to Madsen Pirie, president of the Adam Smith Institute, and Loretta Napoleoni author of Mao-nomics, who argues that Chinese communists are now the most effective capitalists. The lawyer James G Rickards, explains why he thinks we are on the verge of an almighty economic conflict, and Jeremy Wagstaff charts the development of blogging.

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