Audio: A New Global Economics - a look at the financial crisis (BBC Documentary)

2 Documentaries on the financial crisis.

New Global Economics: The Shock & the Shift

Martin Wolf, Chief Economic Commentator of The Financial Times, examines how the world has changed since the beginning of the financial crisis four years ago, and asks if the pre-2007 era might be the high point for free market capitalism.

A New Global Economics: Radical Economics

Was the economic crisis caused by fundamental problems with the system rather than a mere failure of policy?

This two-part series investigates two schools of economics with radical solutions.

In 1. A New Global Economics: Radical Economics: part one, Jamie Whyte looks at the free market Austrian School of F.A. Hayek.

In 2. A New Global Economics: Radical Economics: part two Paul Mason asks whether the expansion of credit created a new form of worker exploitation.