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Are we too dependent on metals and minerals that are increasingly hard to get hold of?
Is inflation still public enemy number one, or a useful economic tool for central bankers?
Are companies there to please their shareholders or do good? Can they do both?
Is there such a thing as safe energy?
Is this the year we put the global financial crisis behind us?
Innovation – at the heart of an economy or an optional extra?
Do ethics fly out of the window as we chase profit? Or is an ethical code key to business?
Andrew Walker and guests discuss the size of the black hole of debt facing Europe's banks.
Manuela Saragosa's guests unpick the economic threats in America and the eurozone.
Do the global super-rich elite bring any benefit to the rest of society?
Does it matter if a foreigner has the top job in a national institution?
Can one person change the whole culture of an organisation?
What is it besides the money in people's pockets that makes a society prosperous?
Can China continue its world beating growth under new leadership?
Economists at Ireland's Kilkenomics festival discuss those behind the financial crisis.
What is it that stops South Africa delivering a better standard of living to its people?
Can a mix of entrepreneurship and technology lift young people out of joblessness?
How long will taxpayers have to pay out billions to subsidise wind or solar power?
What will US voters look for on the economy? Plus, is an era of zero growth on the way?
Has Europe's financial crisis undermined the legitimacy of democratic politics?
Divided lives: do we display different moral behaviour at work and at home?
Is there too much hype about smartphones and connectivity?
As the ECB acts to save the euro, are central banks are over-reaching themselves?
Lesley Curwen and Justin Rowlatt get behind the headlines to find out what's really goi...
Are biofuels responsible for rising food prices?
As Paul Ryan is picked, is the U.S. unusually divided on how to cut government borrowing?
Can automated share-trading threaten financial stability? Plus why corporate junkets work.
How much money is the developing world missing out on because of tax cheats?
Can emerging nations come to the rescue of the ailing economies of the developed world?
How can big companies be held to account by parliaments?
