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A small domestic economy attached to an outsized international financial centre, so UK-listed returns depend far more on the City, sterling and global earnings than on British GDP.

6 books · 2 people behind it

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  1. The Death of Gentlemanly CapitalismPhilip Augar, 2000
  2. The Rise and Fall of the British NationDavid Edgerton, 2018
  3. The City of LondonDavid Kynaston, 1994

The people behind it 2

Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.

Journalists 2

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Philip Augar3 books here
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David Kynaston2 books here

Books 6

The City of London
T1 The City of London
David Kynaston · 1994 · The four-volume history of the world's oldest continuous financial centre.
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Till Time's Last Sand
T1 Till Time's Last Sand
David Kynaston · 2017 · The Bank of England from 1694, by its best narrative historian.
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The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism
T2 The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism
Philip Augar · 2000 · How Big Bang handed the City's investment banks to foreign owners.
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The Bank That Lived a Little
T2 The Bank That Lived a Little
Philip Augar · 2018 · Barclays' thirty-year attempt to become a global investment bank.
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The Rise and Fall of the British Nation
T2 The Rise and Fall of the British Nation
David Edgerton · 2018 · Revises the declinist story of British industry and its ownership.
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The Greed Merchants
T3 The Greed Merchants
Philip Augar · 2005 · How the integrated investment bank extracts its economics from clients.
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