Financial Times launches series on the Future of Capitalism

On Monday 9 March, the Financial Times will launch a groundbreaking series of articles, opinion pieces and online features investigating the Future of Capitalism. As part of its ongoing role in providing insight and analysis on the credit crisis, the Financial Times will identify how we got to where we are today, what a future global financial system might look like and how the business world will be reshaped.

Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times, said: “The FT is uniquely placed to analyse world markets in a historical context, the events of the last 18 months and the new political and business landscape of the future. Some of the world’s top business and economic commentators will support us in leading this debate.”

The first week will see a series of five analysis pages written by top FT journalists, several guest opinion pieces and an online interactive feature. The theme will continue for the following three weeks with articles, further columnists and online features, culminating in a special insight report on 2 April covering the G20 summit. FT.com will feature audio and video roundtable discussions between FT commentators from London, New York and Tokyo.

An in-depth section on FT.com will pull together the news, editorial comment, analysis and interactive features that will include the 50 most influential people involved in reshaping the world’s financial systems and attitudes to the market over time. Opinion pieces will be published on blogs so that there is as much interaction as possible between authors and readers.

Guest writers include:

Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the US Federal Reserve

Hank Paulson, former US Treasury secretary

Tony Blair, former UK prime minister

Nigel Lawson, former UK chancellor of the exchequer

Richard Layard, founder-director of the LSE Centre for Economic Performance and member of the House of Lords

Robert Rubin, former secretary of the US Treasury under the Clinton administrations

Robert Shiller, Arthur M. Okun professor of economics at Yale University

Mario Monti, former member of the European Commission responsible for competition

Top FT contributors include:

Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator

Gillian Tett, assistant editor

Chris Giles, economics editor

Chrystia Freeland, US managing editor

Francesco Guerrera, US business and finance editor

Peter Thal-Larsen, banking editor

John Authers, global investment editor

The FT will launch a new marketing campaign around the series, including promotion of the FT.com roundtable debates on iTunes.

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For further information, please contact:

Tom Glover, Financial Times, +44 20 7775 6840 or tom.glover@ft.com

Kristina Eriksson, Financial Times, +44 20 7873 4961 or kristina.eriksson@ft.com

About the Financial Times:

The Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business news organisations, is recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. Providing extensive news, comment and analysis, the newspaper is printed at 24 print sites across the globe, has a daily circulation of 432,944 (ABC figures January 2009) and a readership of 1.3 million people worldwide. FT.com is the definitive home for business intelligence on the web, providing an essential source of news, comment, data and analysis for the global business community. FT.com attracts 7.1 million unique users, generating 72 million page views (ABCe figures, March 2008) and now has over one million registered users.