FT: This crisis is a moment, but is it a defining one?

By Martin Wolf

Is the current crisis a watershed, with market-led globalisation, financial capitalism and western domination on the one side and protectionism, regulation and Asian predominance on the other? Or will historians judge it, instead, as an event caused by fools, signifying little? My own guess is that it will end up in between. It is neither a Great Depression, because the policy response has been so determined, nor capitalism’s 1989.

Let us examine what we know and do not know of its impact on the economy, finance, capitalism, the state, globalisation and geopolitics. (more)