We can overcome the global economic crisis only changing
the present rules of our life and checking them with such
concepts such as trust, morality and the public good, said
Grigory Yavlinsky, member of YABLOKOs Political Committee
and Doctor of Economic Sciences.
"There is a substitution of meanings, when the market
economy is viewed at solely as a tool for deriving profit,
manufacturers are not oriented to the real needs of the people
depriving the latter of choice and imposing what will bring
the greatest profit. This is not the post-industrial economy,
but a postmodern world where not only businessmen, but also
experts and politicians are guided only by self-interests
and that is why they can not cope in principle with the ongoing
crisis," Yavlinsky stressed in the debate on the global
economic problems with political philosopher Prof. Michael
Sandel, Harvard University and Diane Coyle, academic and economist.
The debate took place in the BBC Start the Week programme,
a popular discussion program on the BBC 4, on May 21, 2012.
The discussion was devoted to the fundamental problems underlying
the global crisis which, according to all the participants
of the discussion, can not be limited to economics only.
On May 22, Grigory Yavlinsky made a lecture at the Royal
Institute of International Affairs (Chatham
House), one of the world's key think tanks.
Grigory Yavlinsky was also invited to one of the most popular
BBC television programmes Hard Talk. The programme represents
an interview with an anchor Staphen Sackur on the most urgent
issues. The format of the programme envisages acute and tough
questions from the anchor. In particular, interviewing Dmitry
Peskov, Press Secretary of Vladimir Putin in March 2012, Sakur
asked him why the government was afraid of the opposition,
and why the officials responsible for the death of Sergei
Magnitsky were not in prison.
Grigory Yavlinsky - professor, doctor of economic sciences
the author of several books on the Russian and world economy.
In the Fall of 2011, the Yale University published his book
Realeconomik:
The Hidden Cause of the Great Recession (And How to Avert
the Next One). The book touching on the most crucial
issues, "inconvenient" for the world's political
and business elite, provoked serious academic discussions
and a broad resonance in business and political circles.
See also:
BBC
Start the Week with Grigory Yavlinsky
BBC
Hard Talk
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