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Speaker(s): Professor George Selgin, Professor Lord Skidelsky, Duncan Weldon, Dr Jamie Whyte Chair: Paul Mason Recorded on 26 July 2011. How do we get out of the financial mess we're in? Two of the great economic thinkers of the 20th century had sharply contrasting views: John Maynard Keynes believed that governments could create sustainable employment and growth.

The Age of Uncertainty is a 1977 television series about economics, history and politics, co-produced by the BBC, CBC, KCET and OECA, and written and presented by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith. Galbraith acknowledges the successes of the market system in economics but associated it with instability, inefficiency and social inequity.

https://www.soas.ac.uk/development/ This event titled "Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises" was presented by Anwar Shaikh and was held as part of the Development Studies Seminar Series at SOAS University of London on 11 October 2016.

Mariana Mazzucato argues that the idea that entrepreneurship is confined to the private sector is wrong. In fact, while often considered "inefficient," the state is among the shrewdest investors in innovation-and deserves its fair share of the rewards. Who should get the fruits of innovation?