[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0
In this, another of those fantastic RSAnimate videos from London's Royal Society for the Arts, the Marxist sociologist David Harvey explains how the "internal contradictions of capital accumulation," not human nature or faulty institutions, are the actual root cause of the recent financial collapse (along with a host of other economic crises). It's a perspective you won't hear on TV very much.