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Crash Bang Wallop: The Inside Story of London´s Big Bang and a Financial Revolution that Changed the World
Iain Martin
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Description for Crash Bang Wallop: The Inside Story of London´s Big Bang and a Financial Revolution that Changed the World
Hardback. The gripping story of the financial revolution known as 'Big Bang', which transformed international business and changed our world, for fans of Michael Lewis' bestselling The Big Short and Liaquat Ahamed's prizewinning Lords of Finance. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: KCX; KCY; KFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 166 x 242 x 33. Weight in Grams: 594.
The one book you need to read if you want to understand the financial world. For fans of Michael Lewis's THE BIG SHORT and Andrew Ross Sorkin's TOO BIG TO FAIL, CRASH BANG WALLOP tells the gripping story of the most daring financial experiment in modern history. Big Bang was the dramatic moment in October 1986 when London became a testing ground for a new type of global finance. It embodied a wider revolution and the birth of a new age of fully electronic trading, transcontinental commerce and wealth creation on a ... Read more
The one book you need to read if you want to understand the financial world. For fans of Michael Lewis's THE BIG SHORT and Andrew Ross Sorkin's TOO BIG TO FAIL, CRASH BANG WALLOP tells the gripping story of the most daring financial experiment in modern history. Big Bang was the dramatic moment in October 1986 when London became a testing ground for a new type of global finance. It embodied a wider revolution and the birth of a new age of fully electronic trading, transcontinental commerce and wealth creation on a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473625068
SKU
V9781473625068
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-1
About Iain Martin
Iain Martin is a commentator on politics and economics. He has been editor of the Scotsman and of Scotland on Sunday and Deputy Editor of the Sunday Telegraph. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail and Standpoint magazine. His first book, Making It Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS, and the Men who Blew Up ... Read more
Reviews for Crash Bang Wallop: The Inside Story of London´s Big Bang and a Financial Revolution that Changed the World
His book confirmed to me that the City is a financial centre like no other
Literary Review
Martin's great trick in the book is his ear for echoes of the present in stories from the past, making the old City feel remarkably familiar today . . . Above all, Martin has a warmth for his subject, and its ... Read more
Literary Review
Martin's great trick in the book is his ear for echoes of the present in stories from the past, making the old City feel remarkably familiar today . . . Above all, Martin has a warmth for his subject, and its ... Read more