This book is really two books. The first – which I found original and fascinating – is on the negative consequences of the widespread use of cash in modern economies. Although the point has been made ...

Business historian Alfred Chandler documented the rise of the modern managerial corporation in his magisterial Strategy and Structure (1962).The book showcased General Motors, along with chemical ...

Book Review – Uncommon Sense: economic insights, from marriage to terrorism – Gary Becker and Richard Posner This book finds its origin in an unusual blog. The creators of the blog and authors of the ...

Book Review: The Big Short by Michael Lewis This book is a remarkable achievement. It is as gripping as a thriller, yet it manages to ex... Continue reading ...

Once upon a time, there was a wise and kindly Emperor, with a faithful retainer called Sid. One day, the Emperor took him aside ‘You are serving me well, and as a ...

Doing an Atkins diet is now as fashionable in business as it is in personal life. But in business – as on the female body – there are places where you want fat as well as those where you do not.

Downfall of an economic experiment According to conventional wisdom, New Zealand has done everything right in its economic policies: rolling back the slate in industry and welfare, establishing an ...

Click to enlarge Home test The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong - Paperback £ 12,00 Back to products ...

The triumph of the market system over the planned economy was probably the defining economic event of our lifetime, its symbol the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In the advanced economies of the ...

The 19 th century was the century of the rise of large states. Countries became bigger, empires were formed. Continental Europe saw the political reunification of German and of Italy. France, and ...

Every twenty years or so since the Industrial Revolution, a group of new technologies has had a major impact on economic life. Steam power, canals, railroads, telegraph and telephone, electricity, ...