Steve Keen's Global Financial Crisis Debtwatch

Can Capitalism Save the Planet?

I took part in this debate host­ed by Intel­li­gence Squared Aus­tralia (an ini­tia­tive of the St James Ethics Cen­tre) last month. I was on the oppo­si­tion side, along with Paul Gild­ing and Kate Jen­nings; the gov­ern­ment posi­tion was put by Lucy Turn­bull, Ross Git­tins and Geof­frey Cousins. Details on all the speak­ers are avail­able here, as is a video of the entire debate from begin­ning to end. In this post I’m repro­duc­ing this video in bite-sized chunks–9 min­utes for each of the speak­ers (plus a 2 minute sum­ming-up peri­od), plus the audi­ence dis­cus­sion that includ­ed a cou­ple of Debt­watch stal­warts.