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The Great Crash (2007/8) ten years on – talking on BBC Radio 4’s World At One special program

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In this BBC World at One program dedicated to the Crash of 2007-8, I try, in the space of two and a half minutes, to explain why those momentous events, ten years ago, changed the world in a manner that it no longer makes sense in terms common prior to 2007. Of why I claim that 2007/8 was to capitalism what 1991 was to socialism https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/YV-talk-9-AUG-2017.mp3And here is an interview on the same subject, and in the same BBC Radio 4  program, by Ken Rogoff https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Ken-Rogoff.mp3

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