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Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises - The Global Curse of Black Gold (Hardcover): Mahmoud A. El-Gamal, Amy Myers Jaffe Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises - The Global Curse of Black Gold (Hardcover)
Mahmoud A. El-Gamal, Amy Myers Jaffe; Foreword by James A. Baker III
R1,837 Discovery Miles 18 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises studies the causes of the current oil and global financial crisis and shows how America s and the world s growing dependence on oil has created a repeating pattern of banking, currency, and energy-price crises. Unlike other books on the current financial crisis, which have focused on U.S. indebtedness and American trade and economic policy, Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises shows the reader a more complex picture in which transfers of wealth to and from the Middle East result in a perfect storm of global asset and financial market bubbles, increased unrest, terrorism and geopolitical conflicts, and eventually rising costs for energy. Only by addressing long-term energy policy challenges in the West, economic development challenges in the Middle East, and the investment horizons of financial market players can policy makers ameliorate the forces that have been causing repeating global economic crises.

The Storm - The World Economic Crisis and What It Means (Paperback, Main): Vince Cable The Storm - The World Economic Crisis and What It Means (Paperback, Main)
Vince Cable 1
R273 R245 Discovery Miles 2 450 Save R28 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An indispensable and absolutely accessible explanation of the causes of the world economic crisis and how we should respond to it In this urgent and timely book, the man the "Daily Telegraph" calls "the sage of the credit crunch" shows that although the downturn is global, the complacency of the British government towards the huge "bubble" in property prices and high levels of personal debt, combined with increasingly exotic trading within the financial markets, has left Britain badly exposed. This paperback edition has been fully revised and updated to include Vince Cable's latest assessment of the recession.

Balancing the Banks - Global Lessons from the Financial Crisis (Paperback): Mathias Dewatripont, Jean-Charles Rochet, Jean... Balancing the Banks - Global Lessons from the Financial Crisis (Paperback)
Mathias Dewatripont, Jean-Charles Rochet, Jean Tirole; Translated by Keith Tribe
R689 Discovery Miles 6 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The financial crisis that began in 2007 in the United States swept the world, producing substantial bank failures and forcing unprecedented state aid for the crippled global financial system. Bringing together three leading financial economists to provide an international perspective, Balancing the Banks draws critical lessons from the causes of the crisis and proposes important regulatory reforms, including sound guidelines for the ways in which distressed banks might be dealt with in the future. While some recent policy moves go in the right direction, others, the book argues, are not sufficient to prevent another crisis. The authors show the necessity of an adaptive prudential regulatory system that can better address financial innovation. Stressing the numerous and complex challenges faced by politicians, finance professionals, and regulators, and calling for reinforced international coordination (for example, in the treatment of distressed banks), the authors put forth a number of principles to deal with issues regarding the economic incentives of financial institutions, the impact of economic shocks, and the role of political constraints. Offering a global perspective, Balancing the Banks should be read by anyone concerned with solving the current crisis and preventing another such calamity in the future.

Financial Crises (Paperback): Kindleberger Financial Crises (Paperback)
Kindleberger
R1,272 R1,036 Discovery Miles 10 360 Save R236 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What can or should be done to ward off or alleviate the effect of financial crises? The papers in this book examine this question, focusing on particular crises, notably those of 1836, 1873, 1920 and 1929. Based on a historical consideration of the nature and propagation of financial crises, the major theoretical issues raised by the contributors centre on whether a financial system, of a nation or of the capitalist world as a whole, is fragile or robust. Although no precise definitions are agreed upon, financial crises are distinguished from crises of unemployment or crises of wartime devastation. The book is based on the papers and proceedings of a conference held in Bad Homberg, West Germany, in May 1979 under the auspices of the Maison de Science de I'Homme and with the support of the Werner-Reimers Stiftung.

Unfinished Business - The Unexplored Causes of the Financial Crisis and the Lessons Yet to be Learned (Paperback): Tamim Bayoumi Unfinished Business - The Unexplored Causes of the Financial Crisis and the Lessons Yet to be Learned (Paperback)
Tamim Bayoumi
R390 R348 Discovery Miles 3 480 Save R42 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A penetrating critique tracing how under-regulated trading between European and U.S. banks led to the 2008 financial crisis--with a prescription for preventing another meltdown There have been numerous books examining the 2008 financial crisis from either a U.S. or European perspective. Tamim Bayoumi is the first to explain how the Euro crisis and U.S. housing crash were, in fact, parasitically intertwined. Starting in the 1980s, Bayoumi outlines the cumulative policy errors that undermined the stability of both the European and U.S. financial sectors, highlighting the catalytic role played by European mega banks that exploited lax regulation to expand into the U.S. market and financed unsustainable bubbles on both continents. U.S. banks increasingly sold sub-par loans to under-regulated European and U.S. shadow banks and, when the bubbles burst, the losses whipsawed back to the core of the European banking system. A much-needed, fresh look at the origins of the crisis, Bayoumi's analysis concludes that policy makers are ignorant of what still needs to be done both to complete the cleanup and to prevent future crises.

Markets on Trial - The Economic Sociology of the U.S. Financial Crisis (Hardcover): Michael Lounsbury, Paul M. Hirsch Markets on Trial - The Economic Sociology of the U.S. Financial Crisis (Hardcover)
Michael Lounsbury, Paul M. Hirsch; Series edited by Michael Lounsbury
R6,569 Discovery Miles 65 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This Book Set of A & B. Since the mid-20th century, organizational theorists have increasingly distanced themselves from the study of core societal power centers and important policy issues of the day. This has been driven by a shift away from the study of organizations, politics, and society and towards a more narrow focus on instrumental exchange and performance. As a result, our field has become increasingly impotent as a critical voice and contributor to policy. For a contemporary example, witness our inability as a field to make sense of the recent U.S. mortgage meltdown and concomitant global financial crisis. It is not that economic and organizational sociologists have nothing to say. The problem is that while we have a great deal of knowledge about finance, the economy, entrepreneurship and corporations, we fail to address how the knowledge in our field can be used to contribute to important policy issues of the day. This double-volume brings together some of the very top scholars in the world in economic and organizational sociology to address the recent global financial crisis debates and struggles around how to organize economies and societies around the world.

Global Slump - The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance (Paperback, New): David McNally Global Slump - The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance (Paperback, New)
David McNally
R463 Discovery Miles 4 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A highly original account, 'Global Slump' analyses the global financial meltdown as the first systemic crisis of the neoliberal stage of capitalism. It argues that, far from having ended, the crisis has ushered in a whole period of worldwide economic and political turbulence.

Fighting Financial Crises - Learning from the Past (Hardcover): Gary B. Gorton, Ellis W Tallman Fighting Financial Crises - Learning from the Past (Hardcover)
Gary B. Gorton, Ellis W Tallman
R1,372 Discovery Miles 13 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

If you’ve got some money in the bank, chances are you’ve never seriously worried about not being able to withdraw it. But there was a time in the United States, an era that ended just over a hundred years ago, in which bank customers had to pay close attention to whether the banking system would remain solvent, knowing they might have to rush to retrieve their savings before the bank collapsed. During the National Banking Era (1863–1914), before the establishment of the Federal Reserve, widespread banking panics were indeed rather common. Yet these pre-Fed banking panics, as Gary B. Gorton and Ellis W. Tallman show, bear striking similarities to our recent financial crisis. In both cases, something happened to make depositors—whether individual customers or corporate investors—“act differently” and find reason to question the value of their bank debt. Fighting Financial Crises thus turns to the past for a fuller understanding of our uncertain present, investigating how panics during the National Banking Era played out and how they were eventually quelled and prevented. Gorton and Tallman open with a survey of the period’s “information environment,” tracing the development of national bank notes, checks, and clearing houses to show how the key to keeping order was to disseminate information very carefully. Identifying the most effective responses based on the framework of the National Banking Era, they then consider the Fed’s and the SEC’s reactions to the recent crisis, building an informative new perspective on how the modern economy works.

Sovereign Debt at the Crossroads - Challenges and Proposals for Resolving the Third World Debt Crisis (Paperback): Chris... Sovereign Debt at the Crossroads - Challenges and Proposals for Resolving the Third World Debt Crisis (Paperback)
Chris Jochnick, Fraser A Preston
R1,456 Discovery Miles 14 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Recent world events have created a compelling need for new perspectives and realistic solutions to the problem of sovereign debt. The success of the Jubilee 2000 movement in raising public awareness of the devastating effects of debt, coupled with the highly publicized Bono/O'Neill tour of Africa, and the spectacular default and economic implosion of Argentina have helped spur a global debate over debt. A growing chorus of globalization critics, galvanized by the Catholic Church's demand for forgiveness and bolstered by recent defaults, has put debt near the top of the international agenda. Creditor governments and international financial institutions have belatedly recognized the need for more sustainable progress on debt as an inescapable step towards economic recovery in many parts of the world. This book is intended to advance the dialogue around these issues by providing a comprehensive overview of the problems raised by debt and describing new and practical approaches to overcoming them. It will be the first in more than a decade to bring together under one cover the voices of prominent members of the international debt community. It will include pieces from the most relevant constituencies: from creditors (the IMF/World Bank, government lenders, private investors) to critics (debtor representatives, activists, and academics) and analysis from economists, bankers, lawyers, social scientists, and politicians. As contributions come from such leading thinkers across a range of disciplines, this book will offer a timely guide for understanding and influencing the debt debate.

The Theft of a Decade - How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials' Economic Future (Hardcover): Joseph C Sternberg The Theft of a Decade - How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials' Economic Future (Hardcover)
Joseph C Sternberg
R757 R670 Discovery Miles 6 700 Save R87 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Theft of a Decade is a contrarian, revelatory analysis of how one generation pulled the rug out from under another, and the myriad consequences that has set in store for all of us. The millennial generation was the unfortunate victim of several generations of economic theories that made life harder for them than it was for their grandparents. Then came the crash of 2008, and the Boomer generation's reaction to it was brutal: politicians and policy makers made deliberate decisions that favored the interests of the Boomer generation over their heirs, the most egregious being over the use of monetary policy, fiscal policy and regulation. For the first time in recent history, policy makers gave up on investing for the future and instead mortgaged that future to pay for the ugly economic sins of the present. This book describes a new economic crisis, a sinister tectonic shift that is stealing a generation's future.

Stochastic Volatility - Selected Readings (Paperback): Neil Shephard Stochastic Volatility - Selected Readings (Paperback)
Neil Shephard
R1,944 Discovery Miles 19 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Neil Shephard has brought together a set of classic and central papers that have contributed to our understanding of financial volatility. They cover stocks, bonds and currencies and range from 1973 up to 2001. Shephard, a leading researcher in the field, provides a substantial introduction in which he discusses all major issues involved.

The Power of Money - How Governments and Banks Create Money and Help Us All Prosper (Hardcover): Paul Sheard The Power of Money - How Governments and Banks Create Money and Help Us All Prosper (Hardcover)
Paul Sheard
R820 R700 Discovery Miles 7 000 Save R120 (15%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Food and Financial Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa - Origins, Impacts and Policy Implications (Hardcover, New): Ernest Aryeetey Food and Financial Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa - Origins, Impacts and Policy Implications (Hardcover, New)
Ernest Aryeetey; Edited by David Lee; Contributions by Keith Wiebe; Edited by Muna Ndulo; Contributions by Siwa Msangi, …
R3,356 Discovery Miles 33 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Dramatic increases in food prices, as witnessed on a global scale in recent years, threaten the food security of hundreds of millions of the rural poor in Sub-Saharan Africa alone. This book focuses on recent food and financial crises as they have affected Africa, illustrating the problems using country case studies, that cover their origins, effects on agriculture and rural poverty, their underlying factors and making recommendations as to how such crises could best be addressed in the future.

Plight of the Fortune Tellers - Why We Need to Manage Financial Risk Differently (Paperback, Revised edition): Riccardo Rebonato Plight of the Fortune Tellers - Why We Need to Manage Financial Risk Differently (Paperback, Revised edition)
Riccardo Rebonato
R616 Discovery Miles 6 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Today's top financial professionals have come to rely on ever-more sophisticated mathematics in their attempts to come to grips with financial risk. But this excessive reliance on quantitative precision is misleading--and puts everyone at risk. In "Plight of the Fortune Tellers," Riccardo Rebonato forcefully argues that we must restore genuine decision making to our financial planning. Presenting a financial model that uses probability, experimental psychology, and decision theory, Rebonato challenges us to rethink the standard wisdom about risk management. He offers a radical yet surprisingly commonsense solution: managing risk comes down to real people making decisions under uncertainty.

"Plight of the Fortune Tellers" is a must-read for anyone concerned about how today's financial markets are run. In a new preface, Rebonato explains how the ideas presented in this book fit into the context of the global financial crisis that followed its original publication. He argues that risk managers are still stuck in a probabilistic rut, and need to engage with the structural causes of real events.

Balancing the Banks - Global Lessons from the Financial Crisis (Hardcover, New): Mathias Dewatripont, Jean-Charles Rochet, Jean... Balancing the Banks - Global Lessons from the Financial Crisis (Hardcover, New)
Mathias Dewatripont, Jean-Charles Rochet, Jean Tirole; Translated by Keith Tribe
R971 Discovery Miles 9 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The financial crisis that began in 2007 in the United States swept the world, producing substantial bank failures and forcing unprecedented state aid for the crippled global financial system. Bringing together three leading financial economists to provide an international perspective, "Balancing the Banks" draws critical lessons from the causes of the crisis and proposes important regulatory reforms, including sound guidelines for the ways in which distressed banks might be dealt with in the future.

While some recent policy moves go in the right direction, others, the book argues, are not sufficient to prevent another crisis. The authors show the necessity of an "adaptive" prudential regulatory system that can better address financial innovation. Stressing the numerous and complex challenges faced by politicians, finance professionals, and regulators, and calling for reinforced international coordination (for example, in the treatment of distressed banks), the authors put forth a number of principles to deal with issues regarding the economic incentives of financial institutions, the impact of economic shocks, and the role of political constraints.

Offering a global perspective, "Balancing the Banks" should be read by anyone concerned with solving the current crisis and preventing another such calamity in the future.

Wall Street at War - The Secret Struggle for the Global Economy (Paperback, New): Alexandra Ouroussoff Wall Street at War - The Secret Struggle for the Global Economy (Paperback, New)
Alexandra Ouroussoff
R408 Discovery Miles 4 080 Out of stock

Many of the problems that lie at the heart of the current financial crisis stem from a significant but little-known development that occurred in the early 1980s: investors changed their investment criteria. This change gave rise to a conflict - a silent war - between executives in charge of the world's largest corporations, on the one hand, and credit agencies whose task it is to enforce the criteria on investors' behalf, on the other. The credit agencies that flourished in New York, London and elsewhere acquired a great deal of power because their ratings now reflected investors new priorities, and so controlled the ability of corporations to gain access to capital. The rise of the credit agencies thereby also represented a new model of capitalism, quite different from the old model of the risk-taking entrepreneur. To attract investment capital, corporations now have to employ enormous resources to create the illusion that capital is directed in line with the new expectations imposed by the credit agencies. The result is that devious reporting on companies' activities has become endemic. Drawing on more than six years of fieldwork carried out in some of the world's most powerful corporations and credit rating agencies on Wall Street, this short book describes, for the first time, the unspoken conflict that shapes the global economy. Anthropologist Alexandra Ouroussoff describes with startling clarity the effects of Wall Street's silent war: from the financial community's inability to price risk accurately (now recognised as a major cause of the financial crisis) to the deep reasons behind credit analysts' misplaced faith in numbers. Yet the book's most important contribution is its path-breaking analysis of the conditions of the conflict itself, here revealed as an unintended consequence of a much deeper transformation in the conditions underlying capitalism's success.

Global Meltdown and Indian Economy (Hardcover): Anil Kumar Thakur, Paramanand Singh Global Meltdown and Indian Economy (Hardcover)
Anil Kumar Thakur, Paramanand Singh
R303 Discovery Miles 3 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Central Banks at a Crossroads - What Can We Learn from History? (Paperback): Michael D. Bordo, Oyvind Eitrheim, Marc Flandreau,... Central Banks at a Crossroads - What Can We Learn from History? (Paperback)
Michael D. Bordo, Oyvind Eitrheim, Marc Flandreau, Jan F. Qvigstad
R1,702 Discovery Miles 17 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Throughout their long history, the primary concern of central banks has oscillated between price stability in normal times and financial stability in extraordinary times. In the wake of the recent global financial crisis, central banks have been given additional responsibilities to ensure financial stability, which has sparked intense debate over the nature of their role. Bankers and policy makers face an enormous challenge finding the right balance of power between the central bank and the state. This volume is the result of an international conference held at Norges Bank (the central bank of Norway). International experts and policy makers present research and historical analysis on the evolution of the central bank. They specifically focus on four key aspects: its role as an institution, the part it plays within the international monetary system, how to delineate and limit its functions, and how to apply the lessons of the past two centuries.

Sovereign Debt and the Financial Crisis - Will This Time Be Different? (Paperback): Carlos A.Primo Braga, Gallina A. Vincelette Sovereign Debt and the Financial Crisis - Will This Time Be Different? (Paperback)
Carlos A.Primo Braga, Gallina A. Vincelette
R1,037 Discovery Miles 10 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, governments worldwide undertook massive fiscal interventions to stave off what otherwise would have likely been a system-wide financial and economic meltdown. The policy responses engendered significant shifts in growth trajectories and debt sustainability outlooks of both mature and developing economies. For Low Income Countries, post-crisis debt sustainability analyses show an average deterioration of 5-7 percentage points in the present value of public debt-to-GDP ratio in 2009-10 compared with pre-crisis projections, and stay in the area of 30 per cent until 2014. Among the LICs, 40 per cent face high risk of (or are in) debt distress. In the G20 countries, government debt-to-GDP ratios are expected reach 85 per cent by 2014. The magnitude of public liabilities incurred and the uncertainty surrounding the exit from unprecedented discretionary fiscal stimulus have become a major source of concern about a future crisis. Will the current stringent financial conditions lead to a wave of sovereign debt problems around the world? Or will countries, given their stronger fundamentals compared with previous crises' episodes, successfully muddle through the crisis? The objective of the book is to present and discuss policy-relevant research on the current debt challenges which developing, emerging market, and developed economies face. Its value added lies in the integrated approach of drawing on theoretical research and evidence from practitioners' experience in developing, emerging market, and developed countries. The study is partially funded by the Debt Management Facility for Low-Income Countries. Contributors involve World Bank staff, other international and multilateral institutions, external researchers.

Revenge Capitalism - The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts (Paperback): Max Haiven Revenge Capitalism - The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts (Paperback)
Max Haiven
R650 Discovery Miles 6 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Capitalism is in a profound state of crisis. Beyond the mere dispassionate cruelty of 'ordinary' structural violence, it appears today as a global system bent on reckless economic revenge; its expression found in mass incarceration, climate chaos, unpayable debt, pharmaceutical violence and the relentless degradation of common life. In Revenge Capitalism, Max Haiven argues that this economic vengeance helps us explain the culture and politics of revenge we see in society more broadly. Moving from the history of colonialism and its continuing effects today, he examines the opioid crisis in the US, the growth of 'surplus populations' worldwide and unpacks the central paradigm of unpayable debts - both as reparations owed, and as a methodology of oppression. Revenge Capitalism offers no easy answers, but is a powerful call to the radical imagination.

Inequalities in the UK - New Discourses, Evolutions and Actions (Hardcover): David Fee, Anemone Kober-Smith Inequalities in the UK - New Discourses, Evolutions and Actions (Hardcover)
David Fee, Anemone Kober-Smith
R3,119 Discovery Miles 31 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book addresses the question of the extent of and responses to inequalities in the UK in 2017 in the wake of the 2008 Great Recession. Inequality is the issue that won't go away, a real world issue affecting all facets of society with political and economic developments such as austerity measures, Brexit and changes in political leadership impacting the inequality landscape. Six of the chapters examine the extent of economic inequalities and poverty using quantitative and qualitative methods that help map regional differences, compare the UK with the rest of the EU and go beyond the traditional measures and concepts. Seven chapters explore how inequalities have evolved since 2008 and have been tackled by policy makers in five policy areas (health, housing, education, gender and immigration) taking into account the new legislative framework and in one party (labour). Finally, six others address the issue of the governance of inequality by looking at how inequality features in the political agenda of the devolved assemblies in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales as well as at a local level in Ipswich and London. Based on recent surveys and current academic thinking, this book provides an up-to-date account of the extent and distribution of inequalities in the UK, of the evolving ways in which inequalities are measured and addressed as well as the changing perception of inequalities by the general public and policy-makers.

The Failed Experiment - And How to Build an Economy That Works (Paperback): Andrew Fisher The Failed Experiment - And How to Build an Economy That Works (Paperback)
Andrew Fisher
R378 Discovery Miles 3 780 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In the last thirty-five years, politicians of all parties in government ceded power over fundamental sectors of our economy to a new oligarchy of corporations. Government has become the servant, not the master, of corporate interests. Andrew Fisher describes this as a failed political experiment; an analysis that makes this book very different. It is not about blaming the bankers, or even high powered financiers - though much blame and opprobrium has rightly been apportioned to them. Nor is it a partisan attack on the failures of Conservative or Labour governments. Instead, this is a book about the much larger political crisis that still threatens our living standards - and how we can resolve it.

Salvage Ethnography in the Financial Sector - The Path to Economic Crisis in Scotland (Hardcover): Jonathan Hearn Salvage Ethnography in the Financial Sector - The Path to Economic Crisis in Scotland (Hardcover)
Jonathan Hearn
R2,663 Discovery Miles 26 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is based on ethnographic research from 2001-2, during Bank of Scotland's first year of merger with Halifax to form HBOS. The research is revisited from the present perspective in the wake of the global banking and financial crisis that undermined HBOS in 2008. This historical perspective on the ethnographic data is used to explore: people's responses to the pressures of heightened competition and organisational change; mutual and sometimes antagonistic perceptions of Scottish and English identities across the two merged banks; conflicting evaluations of national and organisational cultures; and the challenges of integrating ethnographic and historical perspectives in a single study. As an historical ethnography it 'salvages' a disappearing culture of Scottish and UK banking, disintegrated by neoliberal processes. -- .

Currency, Credit and Crisis - Central Banking in Ireland and Europe (Hardcover): Patrick Honohan Currency, Credit and Crisis - Central Banking in Ireland and Europe (Hardcover)
Patrick Honohan
R2,490 Discovery Miles 24 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The global financial crisis in 2008 brought central banking to the centre stage, prompting questions about the role of national central banks and - in Europe - of the multi-country European Central Bank. What can central banks do, and what are their limitations? How have they performed? Currency, Credit and Crisis seeks to provide a coherent perspective on the functions of a central bank in a small country by assessing the way in which Ireland's financial crisis from 2010 to 2013 was handled. Drawing on his experiences as Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland and in research and policy work at the World Bank, Patrick Honohan offers a detailed analytical narrative of the origins of the crisis and of policy makers' conduct during its most fraught moments.

Who Runs Britain? - ...and who's to blame for the economic mess we're in (Paperback): Robert Peston Who Runs Britain? - ...and who's to blame for the economic mess we're in (Paperback)
Robert Peston 1
R336 R305 Discovery Miles 3 050 Save R31 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'A compelling portrait of early 21st-century casino capitalism ... essential reading.' - The Times On 13 September 2007, Robert Peston broke the news that Northern Rock had become a victim of the global credit crunch and was seeking an emergency loan from the Bank of England. It was the latest in a long line of scoops by this award-winning journalist. Over the weeks that followed, the Government found itself exposed to the Rock to the tune of GBP57 billion, or almost GBP2000 for every taxpayer. As Robert Peston shows in this fascinating book, the seeds for the collapse of Northern Rock and the upheavals in the financial markets were sown years before. Who Runs Britain? is the first time anyone has drawn all the threads together to weave a story that's rich in extraordinary characters and outrageous feats of economic bravado. This book is about the widening gap between the super-rich and the rest of us. It explores and explodes the myth that the financial creativity of those who are amassing these vast fortunes is good for the wider economy and for all of us. Whether you're a financial expert or just have a bank account, Who Runs Britain? is a book you must read.

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