Paul Mason Interviews Economists of Financialisation on Escaping Credit Serfdom
BBC4 "Analysis" interviews via http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y6qtb
Description
"Radical Economics: escaping credit serfdom
Duration: 30 minutes First broadcast: Monday 07 February 2011 The role of credit in the build up to the global financial crisis is well known - but what has our reliance on credit been doing to the wider economy and to human behaviour?
The expansion of consumer credit has been encouraged by social democratic as well as centre right governments. But some on the left believe that the growth of the financial sector has given birth to a novel form of capitalism and with that a new kind of worker exploitation.
Paul Mason meets the economists of "financialisation" who believe that credit has become the defining relationship between workers and employers, citizens and public services.
Paul Mason is Economics Editor of Newsnight and the author of Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed." (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y6qtb)