Books | Business, Finance & Law

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

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Review: Niall Ferguson again here brings us a history that is informative, entertaining and sobering. Being published in the midst of a global economic meltdown, for a book such as this, is a mixed blessing, as a step too far on the bearish side may make the author look li....

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Outliers: The Story of Success

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Review: I always argued with friends that we never quite know how a successful individual or a company as made it big. Of course we all know about the endless working hours, the "talented" individual and the help of a focused team. But if this was the rule we will have ha....

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The Secret

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Review: Normally one finds these new age tracts mildly amusing. However there is something particularly offensive about the absurdly titled The Secret. The book is little more than a glossy coffee table revamp of the old "power of positive thinking" schtick. However The S....

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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

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Description: Alice Schroeder’s The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life might well be one of the most important books you will ever read -- particularly in a period when the world's various economies appear to be entering freefall. This arm-straining (at near....

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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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Review: Not good: will I finish it? Won't I? Guess I'll have to if I want to assess fairly, but it'll be hard work. Arrogance seeps through every word and, at the end of the day, he's repeatedly hammering home one point that anyone with a degree of critical thinking will b....

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The Great Crash, 1929 (Penguin business)

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Description: Rampant speculation. Record trading volumes. Assets bought not because of their value but because the buyer believes he can sell them for more in a day or two, or an hour or two. Welcome to the late 1920s in the US. There are obvious and absolute parallels to the....

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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

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Description: : For Blink, Malcolm Gladwell, author of the bestselling The Tipping Point explores the extraordinarily perceptive and deceptive power of the sub-conscious mind. Gladwell's major claim is that decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as a decision made ....

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Who Runs Britain?: and Who's to Blame for the Economic Mess We're in

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Review: I got the impression that Peston was urged to put out a book quickly, so he used a lot of his old archive material (Green, M and S etc). But it's worth it as there are some good chapters on hedge funds, and a reminder that our banks were actually borrowing to buy a....

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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

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Review: This book first arrived in a blizzard of publicity back in 2005. Now 4 years on, it has been re-released in a revised and expanded edition with an extra 90 pages of bonus material (be sure to order the 336-page edition) consisting of newspaper columns and blog entr....

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Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur

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Review: Not much is divulged by this eager half-goat-half-man man that can't be gleaned otherwise, though we do sadly learn of a prematurely terminated love affair with his late friend Steve scraped-myself-out-the-plane-only-to-be-quartered-by-wild-dogs Fossett. Rather th....

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