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Capitalism explored

Geoff Riley

26th September 2010

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There are many different variations of capitalism and I am asking my AS micro students to consider them in an assignment this week. Some of my Oxbridge students have been enjoying Ha-Joon Chang’s new book “‘23 things they don’t tell you about Capitalism’” and this BBC Asia news clip offers an interview with him. And in this BBC Hardtalk interview Professor David Harvey, Marxist author of The Enigma of Capital, argues that the collapse of capitalism is inevitable.

His recent talk at the RSA can is brilliantly animated here

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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