What hope for the economy? Capitalism in crisis

07 Feb 2012

Speakers: Thomas Frank, Stephen King, John Kay, Sir Martin Jacomb, Diane Coyle, Linda Yueh, Evan Davis, Anatole Kaletsky, Gideon Rachman

This sold-out discussion took place at the Royal Geographical Society on 7th February 2012. Full video is now available on our YouTube channel, and full audio is available on the player below.

Event info:

We lined up eminent economists and leading figures from the worlds of business and finance for the BBC's Evan Davis to grill on the most pressing issues of the day: Just how bad an economic mess are we in? Is this the end of capitalism as we know it or just one of capitalism’s periodic upheavals that we have to survive as best we can? And what if anything can and should be done to put things back on track?

Speakers

Diane Coyle

Economist, author and managing director of the consultancy Enlightenment Economics
Thomas Frank

American journalist and author of the forthcoming book Pity the Billionaire
Sir Martin Jacomb

Chairman of Canary Wharf Group until 2011 and former chairman of Chairman of Barclays de Zoete Wedd
Anatole Kaletsky

Principal economic commentator of The Times
John Kay

Leading British economist
Stephen King

Group Chief Economist at HSBC
Gideon Rachman

Chief foreign affairs commentator for the Financial Times
Linda Yueh

Economist, broadcaster and author