Worth a read

Coming to grips with financial and economic meltdown

The turmoil that over recent years has engulfed the global financial system and threatens economies across the world is for ordinary folk mostly a frustratingly complex and confusing subject. Now there is a book that at least helps us to come to grips with the origins of the crisis as we brace ourselves for its full impact.

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Has the greatest economic depression just begun?

As increasing numbers of economic analysts are starting to predict that a depression is fast becoming unavoidable, with some indicators  falling to the levels of, or even below, the Great Depression of the 1930s, a book published at the end of May last year makes for some chilling reading.

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Understanding people to increase profits

“Worth a read?” is not your ordinary book review; it is a meta-review and provides an overview of the opinions contained in a variety of book reviews published in the media at large. This week we take al look at Secrets of the Moneylab: How Understanding People Will Increase Your Profits, written by Kay-Yut Chen and Marina Krakovsky, and published in November 2010.

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From crisis to a next phase of capitalism

Worth a read is not your ordinary book review. It is rather a meta-review providing an overview of the opinions contained in a variety of book reviews published in the media at large. This week’s meta-review takes a look at “Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis”, written by Anatole Kaletsky and published in July 2010.

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