With a foreword by former BBC political editor and Ambassador to Washington Peter Jay, this collection of essays examines the geo-political and economic implications of the City of London's financial markets in a globalised world. Exploring globalisation, the growth of China and India, terrorism, corporate social responsibility, the powerful foreign exchange markets and questions of democratic control, this book is lively and stimulating.
With a foreword by former BBC political editor and Ambassador to Washington Peter Jay, this collection of essays examines the geo-political and econom...
Stephen Barber takes the reader on an extraordinary journey from LA to Tokyo via Europe. He carries only a crumpled map in his pocket, a map which plots a horrifying past, a disappearing present and a future collapsing into banality. A virtual reality flight across this territory reveals the surfaces of things, a landscape made by war and technological advances. Coming back to earth and to his own body, Stephen Barber follows the map from city to city. He discovers how cities, once densely layered with a civilization's history of follies and obsessions, are increasingly oblivious places,...
Stephen Barber takes the reader on an extraordinary journey from LA to Tokyo via Europe. He carries only a crumpled map in his pocket, a map which ...
For all of the technical explanations for meltdown in the financial marketsduring the banking crisis, the most readily accepted and almost universal explanation is the single word 'greed'.This is a subject which can at once be seen as the disease at the heart of society and the motivating force behind the progress of mankind."
For all of the technical explanations for meltdown in the financial marketsduring the banking crisis, the most readily accepted and almost universal e...
