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Economic Rights

Melvyn Bragg discusses the relationship between democracy and capitalism and examines whether it is possible for a country to get rich and stay rich without a liberal constitution.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss economic rights. Is democracy the truest conduit of capitalism, or do the forces that make us rich run counter to the democratic institutions that safeguard our rights? The economist Milton Friedman once said, 鈥淚f freedom weren鈥檛 so economically efficient it wouldn鈥檛 stand a chance鈥. If that was ever true, is it still the case as we enter the era of the globalised economy? What is the relationship between democracy and capitalism? Is it possible for a country to get rich and stay rich without a liberal constitution and what is the prospect of the ever looming spectre of 鈥榞lobalised capital鈥 infringing human rights?With Professor Amartya Sen, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge and winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Science; Will Hutton, former Editor of The Observer, Director of The Industrial Society and author of The State We鈥檙e In.

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Thu 27 Jan 2000 21:30

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  • Thu 27 Jan 2000 09:02
  • Thu 27 Jan 2000 21:30

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