June 2020 Issue
Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
Greasy Palms
Crude Intentions: How Oil Corruption Contaminates the World
By Alexandra Gillies
June 2020 Issue
Frances Cairncross
Secrets of the Wheelie Suitcase
How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
By Matt Ridley
Windows of Opportunity: How Nations Create Wealth
By David Sainsbury
February 2020 Issue
Ian Fraser
Master Criminals of the Universe
Sabotage: The Business of Finance
By Anastasia Nesvetailova & Ronen Palan
February 2019 Issue
Kathleen Burk
When the Shine Came Off
The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World
By William L Silber
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December 2018 Issue
Richard Davenport-Hines
The Art of the Deal
Mr Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the World’s Richest Man
By Jonathan Conlin
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November 2018 Issue
Stephen Bates
Stock Horror
Ultimate Folly: The Rises and Falls of Whitaker Wright, the World’s Most Shameless Swindler
By Henry Macrory
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August 2018 Issue
Lucy Moore
Loom & Bust
The Queen’s Embroiderer: A True Story of Paris, Lovers, Swindlers, and the First Stock Market Crisis
By Joan DeJean
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August 2018 Issue
Vicky Pryce
When Greed Was Good
The Bank That Lived a Little: Barclays in the Age of the Very Free Market
By Philip Augar
April 1998 Issue
Niall Ferguson
Glory in His Garden
Edmund de Rothschild: A Gilt-Edged Life, A Memoir
By Edmund de Rothschild
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February 1993 Issue
George Stern
No Worse Than Lloyds
A Full Service Bank: How BCCI Stole Billions Around The World
By John Ring Adams and Douglas Frantz
Inquiry Into The Supervision of BCCI
By Bingham Report
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September 2017 Issue
Martin Vander Weyer
Brought to Account
Till Time’s Last Sand: A History of the Bank of England 1694–2013
By David Kynaston
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September 2017 Issue
Richard Cockett
King of Kowloon
Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong
By Neil Monnery
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October 2016 Issue
Vicky Pryce
City Slickers
Crash, Bang, Wallop: The Inside Story of London’s Big Bang and a Financial Revolution that Changed the World
By Iain Martin
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October 2016 Issue
Martin Vander Weyer
A Capital Fellow
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
By Sebastian Mallaby
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March 2016 Issue
Martin Vander Weyer
‘The Audacity of Pessimism’
The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy
By Mervyn King
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February 2016 Issue
Martin Vander Weyer
Just Giving?
No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy
By Linsey McGoey
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December 2015 Issue
Piers Brendon
Never Was So Much Owed…
No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money
By David Lough
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September 2015 Issue
Martin Vander Weyer
Cheques & Balances
Other People’s Money: Masters of the Universe or Servants of the People?
By John Kay
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May 2015 Issue
Robert Colls
Making it Pay
All Day Long: A Portrait of Britain at Work
By Joanna Biggs
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March 2015 Issue
Philip Roscoe
Caching In
Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order
By Paul Vigna & Michael J Casey
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