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Niall Ferguson reflects on the causes and lessons of the global financial crisis.

The eminent economic historian Niall Ferguson travels to the world's financial centre to deliver a lecture at the New-York Historical Society.

He reflects on the causes of the global financial crisis, and argues that many people have drawn erroneous conclusions from it about the role of regulation.

Is regulation he asks, in fact "the disease of which it purports to be the cure"?

Producer: Jane Beresford.

53 minutes

Broadcasts

  • Tue 26 Jun 2012 22:05GMT
  • Sat 30 Jun 2012 18:05GMT

The Reith Lectures on Radio 4

Archive recordings from the 麻豆社's flagship annual lecture series going back to 1948