
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Are the champions of the capitalist system now turning against the super-rich? And if they are, what will they now do about it? In this week's Analysis, we meet leading figures of the centre right who suddenly seem to have something in common with the political left: a moral aversion to the an era of high finance that saw huge payouts to a few, and bailouts funded by the rest. Prime Minster David Cameron opened 2011 with a speech criticising a system where "a few at the top get rewards that seem to have nothing to do with the risks they take or the effort they put in." He promises change, but how can that be achieved without undermining the logic of capitalism? Edward Stourton meets influential defenders of market forces who say they can keep the best of free trade but exclude the undeserving rich.
Interviewees:
Jesse Norman MP
Producer: Mukul Devichand.
By BBC Radio 44.6
195195 ratings
Are the champions of the capitalist system now turning against the super-rich? And if they are, what will they now do about it? In this week's Analysis, we meet leading figures of the centre right who suddenly seem to have something in common with the political left: a moral aversion to the an era of high finance that saw huge payouts to a few, and bailouts funded by the rest. Prime Minster David Cameron opened 2011 with a speech criticising a system where "a few at the top get rewards that seem to have nothing to do with the risks they take or the effort they put in." He promises change, but how can that be achieved without undermining the logic of capitalism? Edward Stourton meets influential defenders of market forces who say they can keep the best of free trade but exclude the undeserving rich.
Interviewees:
Jesse Norman MP
Producer: Mukul Devichand.

7,700 Listeners

368 Listeners

887 Listeners

790 Listeners

1,044 Listeners

5,436 Listeners

1,794 Listeners

948 Listeners

1,777 Listeners

1,076 Listeners

1,926 Listeners

432 Listeners

419 Listeners

300 Listeners

65 Listeners

736 Listeners

246 Listeners

73 Listeners

647 Listeners

4,173 Listeners

3,191 Listeners

738 Listeners

73 Listeners