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Susan George
January 2009

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There has been a long, silent monetary coup d’état that has transferred value away from labour into the hands of capital, but the current crisis offers a window of opportunity for transforming the economy.

There has been a long, silent monetary coup d’état that has transferred value away from labour into the hands of capital, but the current crisis offers a window of opportunity for transforming the economy, says Susan George.


How social democrats capitulated to market fundamentalism - and why it’s now down to us to advance our own ideas before the window close.

The ways forward, including high interest rates for speculative, unsustainable business and low interest rates for industries that are clean and green.

This lecture was delivered on 12 December 2008 at the Clean Start conference, organised by the New Internationalist

Susan George

TNI fellow, President of the Board of TNI and honorary president of ATTAC-France [Association for Taxation of Financial Transaction to Aid Citizens]

Susan George is one of TNI's most renowned fellows for her long-term and ground-breaking analysis of global issues. Author of fourteen widely translated books, she describes her work in a cogent way that has come to define TNI: "The job of the responsible social scientist is first to uncover these forces [of wealth, power and control], to write about them clearly, without jargon... and finally..to take an advocacy position in favour of the disadvantaged, the underdogs, the victims of injustice."

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