As we've had a couple of topics recently that touched on the side of the street where I (used to) have expertise, economics and business, I thought it'd be a good idea to link to a very good Radio 4 series that covers that ground very wel.
It's called the Bottom Line and, even tho' in a thread just today I was landing some blows on useless and self-serving executives, they usually have some very good high-level guests whose words actually give me hope that we can yet save capitalism from the abyss.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/bottomline/all
It is also worth seeking out a series call Stephanomics (hosted by Stephanie Flanders) - it's hard to catch these series tho' as the BBC does not seem to hold them in reserve for very ling (possibly for copyright reasons). Here is a long but interesting debate about the morality of economics in which she has a part:
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It's called the Bottom Line and, even tho' in a thread just today I was landing some blows on useless and self-serving executives, they usually have some very good high-level guests whose words actually give me hope that we can yet save capitalism from the abyss.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/bottomline/all
It is also worth seeking out a series call Stephanomics (hosted by Stephanie Flanders) - it's hard to catch these series tho' as the BBC does not seem to hold them in reserve for very ling (possibly for copyright reasons). Here is a long but interesting debate about the morality of economics in which she has a part:
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