# Capitalism’s Transparent Failures: Exchanges as the epicentre of markets – a contradiction in terms?

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Patrick L Young
- Year: 2009
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Economics, Business and management, Philosophy
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/capitalisms-transparent-failures-exchanges-epicentre-markets-contradiction-terms)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Author Patrick L. Young reviews the exchange landscape over 2,000 years and wonders whether its vaunted position as a capitalist focal point in society is justified. In a world where the exchange is a minority interest pursuit, what is its future, and has the much-lauded golden age of electronic trading already reached its zenith in a developing world?

## Lectures

1. [Capitalism’s Transparent Failures: Exchanges as the epicentre of markets – a contradiction in terms?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/capitalisms-transparent-failures-exchanges-epicentre-markets-contradiction-terms/b9a0dc1359d7) (YouTube)