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After years of bailouts, downgrades, stagnating growth and market instability, Michael Portillo asks if free-market capitalism is a broken system.

Capitalism dominates the globe as never before, but after years of bailouts, downgrades, stagnating growth and market instability, Michael Portillo asks if free-market capitalism is a broken system. In the second of two programmes, Amartya Sen, Will Hutton, Ha-Joon Chang, Gillian Tett and Hernando De Soto are among the critics and defenders of the free-market as Michael weighs up the costs and benefits of the economic idea that governs our lives.

Producer: Julia Johnson.

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Tue 4 Oct 2011 21:30

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  • Tue 4 Oct 2011 09:00
  • Tue 4 Oct 2011 21:30