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Crash Bang Wallop
- Author
- Iain Martin
- Narrator
- Matt Addis
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date
- 8 September 2016
- Run Time
- 11 hours 49 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Attitudes to money and the way we measure value and status were completely reshaped by Big Bang, and it had an extraordinary impact on politics, on style, on technology, on the class system, on questions of public ownership, and on the geography of London. Perhaps more than anything, Big Bang revolutionised the international markets, as the capital became a testing ground for financial globalisation, with huge repercussions for the global economy.
The definitive insider's account of this critically important moment in modern history, Crash Bang Wallop will also explore what's next for global finance as it gets ready to undergo yet another revolution.
'Iain Martin tells it brilliantly, mixing fury-inducing narrative with an acute eye for the broader conclusion.' Observer
(P)2016 Hodder & Stoughton
Critics Review
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Fascinating . . . it is worth raising your eyes from the Brexit mud-slinging to read a new book on the history of the "Big Bang" financial reform . . .UK politicians should take heed of Martin's book.
Financial Times
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An exciting story, told with verve
Sunday Business Post
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With a journalist's eye for a good tale and a narrative style that rips along, Martin has turned an unloved part of British history about an unloved industry into a fascinating yarn.
The Times
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As historical accounts of modern finance go, this is a corker.
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For anyone interested in finance . . . this is a readable history of how the City became the world's money hub.
Sunday Times
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Highly readable and well-informed
The National
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It is refreshing to read this lively account of a series of actions that add up to one of the undoubted, if not undisputed, successes of modern government action . . . a timely reminder of how the City of London got to where it is now
New Statesman
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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 cast of characters, without excusing their feelings . . . With the journalist's eye for a good tale and a narrative style that rips along, Martin has turned an unloved part of British history about an unloved industry into a fascinating yarn.
The Times
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His book confirmed to me that the City is a financial centre like no other
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Details
- Author
- Iain Martin
- Narrator
- Matt Addis
- Duration
- 11 hours 49 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 September 2016
- ISBN
- 9781473625099
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Genre
- History, Business and Management, European history, Economic and financial crises and disasters, Finance and the finance industry
Synopsis
Published to mark the 30th anniversary of the financial revolution known as 'Big Bang', Crash Bang Wallop will tell the gripping story of how the changes introduced in the 1980s in the City of London transformed our world.Attitudes to money and the way we measure value and status were completely reshaped by Big Bang, and it had an extraordinary impact on politics, on style, on technology, on the class system, on questions of public ownership, and on the geography of London. Perhaps more than anything, Big Bang revolutionised the international markets, as the capital became a testing ground for financial globalisation, with huge repercussions for the global economy. The definitive insider's account of this critically important moment in modern history, Crash Bang Wallop will also explore what's next for global finance as it gets ready to undergo yet another revolution. 'Iain Martin tells it brilliantly, mixing fury-inducing narrative with an acute eye for the broader conclusion.' Observer(P)2016 Hodder & Stoughton
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