Editions

Reckless

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099524045

  • Length: 272  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 192g

  • RRP: £12.99

Reckless

  • The Rise and Fall of the City

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

  • ISBN: 9780099524045

  • Length: 272  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 192g

  • RRP: £12.99

Reviews

  • Reveals the systemic and destructive way that British finance works... Understands both the people and the processes... His best book yet

    Will Hutton, Guardian

  • A meticulously researched history of the City under New Labour. This is a good and eloquently written book...refreshingly non-judgemental

    Literary Review

  • On the money. The City's staggering fall from grace is neatly summed up by a former investment banker

    Sunday Times

  • 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

    Financial Times

  • Clear about the causes, Augar is also clear about the solutions

    Evening Standard

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About the Author

Philip Augar

Philip Augar worked in investment banking for over twenty years. He led NatWest's global equity and bond business before becoming a Group Managing Director at Schroders. Since 2000 he has combined consulting and writing. This is his fifth book. He can be contacted at: www.philipaugar.com

Philip Augar

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