"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Centuries of tradition were coming to an end. With Big Bang in 1986 the banks pursued a lunatic course that led to meltdown just years later. Freed from regulatory limits and allowed to mix brokerage and merchant banking, as well as enter the global market, the Londoners' lack of control was their undoing. Salaries went crazy and, by the millennium, the English merchant banks that dominated the Stock Exchange were gone--bought, faded or, in the case of Barings, spectacularly imploded.
The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism is a sad tale of British arrogance and complacency to rank with anything our motor industry can throw up. It's also a page-turning, stranger-than-fiction read, packed with larger than life characters, scandal, corruption and incompetence. Go to City boardrooms today--no longer in the Square Mile, but perched on the upper floors of Canary Wharf, and the trappings are still there. Augar relates with amusement a recent trip to Docklands, where an inventory of the boardroom reveals "two framed prints of English hunting scenes, one gilt-framed mirror, one antique side table, Regency striped curtains with drape ties". All fake of course. Behind the Regency curtains lie the walls of a 1990s office block, and behind the old school tie sits a foreign owner. --John Rennie
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Shipping:
£ 3.21
Within U.S.A.
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Seller Inventory # Holz_New_0140286675
Book Description Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.68. Seller Inventory # Q-0140286675
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # Abebooks10257
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # think0140286675
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New. Seller Inventory # Wizard0140286675
Book Description Condition: new. Seller Inventory # FrontCover0140286675
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Brand New!. Seller Inventory # VIB0140286675