Neo-liberalism: The Source of Inequality and Financial Chaos.

 This 3-part series answers a lot of questions about why things have gone wrong since the 1980s.

Left Behind - CBC Ideas

Over the past 30 years, the benefits of economic growth in Canada, the US and much of the rest of the world, have gone increasingly to the top one percent of the population. For the majority of families, however, incomes have stagnated. This rise in inequality coincided with a sea change in government policy. Beginning in the 1980s, governments in much of the English-speaking world embarked on what has been called the neoliberal revolution - deregulation, privatization and tax cuts, aimed at liberating markets and stimulating the economy. The rising tide was supposed to lift all boats, but it didn't. Jill Eisen explores what happened.

Left Behind was originally broadcast on Ideas in January 2012 and broadcast on Ideas in the Afternoon in May 2012.