ABSTRACT

Since ‘the crash’ there has been much discussion about what constitutes ‘responsible’ capitalism. Indeed, on 19 January 2012 UK Prime Minister David Cameron dedicated a whole speech to it, in which he concluded:

I want these difficult economic times to achieve more than just paying down the deficit and encouraging growth. I want them to lead to a socially responsible and genuinely popular capitalism, one in which the power of the market and the obligations of responsibility come together.2