Imprint: Vintage
Published: 01/04/2010
ISBN: 9780099524045
Length: 272 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
Weight: 192g
RRP: £12.99
In 1997 it seemed that things in the City could only get better. For ten years everything went according to plan. Buoyed by a strong pound and cheered on by an excitable media, the bankers became the heroes of the age. And then in the summer of 2007 everything began to collapse. Barely a year later the City was in tatters.
Greed, guile and excess - this definitive insider's account charts an intoxicated decade and cogently reveals just how, and why, the City got it so badly wrong.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 01/04/2010
ISBN: 9780099524045
Length: 272 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
Weight: 192g
RRP: £12.99
Reveals the systemic and destructive way that British finance works... Understands both the people and the processes... His best book yet
A meticulously researched history of the City under New Labour. This is a good and eloquently written book...refreshingly non-judgemental
On the money. The City's staggering fall from grace is neatly summed up by a former investment banker
A compelling story of how the City came to be regarded as the jewel in Britain's economic crown... yet was fundamnetally flawed...and became a byword for greed and complacency
Clear about the causes, Augar is also clear about the solutions