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The Black Swan: The Impact Of The Highly Improbable

Discovering America in the 1970s meant discovering the Big Issue book, a kind we still don’t really do here; the big-idea, non-fiction book about the modern world - ideally one with business implications - that will put its author on the cover of Time and onto the major lecture circuit. Such books were piled high in the lovely cathedral bookstores of 5th Avenue then and they sold like mad (still do), so let no-one accuse Americans of neglecting the life of the mind.

Blue Blood and Mutiny: The Fight for the Soul of Morgan Stanley

Patricia Beard’s telling of the events that led to the ousting of Morgan Stanley’s chairman and chief executive Phil Purcell in 2005 is a clear case of history written by the victors.

Asian Godfathers: Money And Power In Hong Kong And South-East Asia

If you were doing the rounds of the City this autumn you’d have heard a similar story in pretty much every office you stepped into. The fact that housing markets across the Western world were either faltering or crashing, that the UK had just seen its first run on a bank in living memory, did not in any way suggest that there would be an appreciable slowdown in global growth.

The Second Bounce Of The Ball: Turning Risk Into Opportunity

Sir Ronald Cohen is that uncommon beast: a red-blooded capitalist with a socialist conscience. He’s more than that, however. Rarer still, he likes to articulate his views in public.

Plutocrats: A Rothschild Inheritance

‘Poor Papa,’ Nat Rothschild once wrote to his brothers, ‘he never said a truer thing than that it is ten times more difficult to keep one’s money than to make money.’ This adage should be drummed into the heads of all students of wealth management and preservation.

The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm

One hundred years on must have seemed like a good time to re-visit one of Wall Street’s most severe financial panics. That, presumably, is why Robert Bruner and Sean D. Carr sat down to write The Panic of 1907. But the authors could hardly have expected that another global credit crisis should suddenly appear just as their own work hit the bookstands.

More Bang For Your Book

A newly updated, sumptuously illustrated and elegantly written survey of Britain’s grandest shooting estates hits the mark, says Rosie Whitaker

Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luxury

The seriously rich are always with us. Most of them. But what about the worldwide New Modestly Rich?

A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds and the Perils of Financial Innovation

Here’s what happened. In the run-up to the crisis, a large number of hedge funds had been established. Many of them used debt to juice returns. The stock market had been far less volatile than usual, which encouraged some hedge funds to take on even more leverage. The smartest hedgies employed computer models to place their bets.