It’s now cool to be a ‘Marxist’ and discover capitalism doesn’t work. But is the recession a product of the same old trend re-asserting itself or is there something else going on? An exceptional line up of speakers do battle and the audience raise the stakes in this Battle of Ideas keynote. Ferdinand Mount, author of The New Few: or a very British oligarchy; Phil Mullan, economist; Vicky Price, co-founder of GoodCorporation and Mike Short, senior vice-president, industry affairs, SABMiller provide more than the usual arguments.
