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Do ideas matter? For the past thirty years faith in the free market has dominated most Western societies. After September 2008, with the collapse of the unregulated global market in financial products, the faith has been shaken.
In this lecture at the Melbourne Writers Festival Robert Manne, one of Australia's foremost public intellectuals, addresses the fragility of neo-liberal ideology - the free market faith - and where it stands in the wake of the recent global financial turmoil.
Melbourne, August 2009