Wall Street in the early 2000s was missing all four of Adam Smith's components: people did not have equal access to markets due to powerful cartels controlling the show; prices were not transparently accessible; ownership and management were not aligned because pension funds outsourced decisions to asset managers; and there was no shared moral ethical framework

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Speaker

Gillian Tett

Evidence Quote

if you dial back and think about what was happening two decades ago on wall street you can see that all four of those components were missing [15:04]

Source

Can we Fix Capitalism? Yanis Varoufakis vs Gillian TettIntelligence Squared
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:33:04 PM

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