Crash Bang Wallop

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.

“As historical accounts of modern finance go, this is a corker.”

'Iain Martin tells it brilliantly, mixing fury-inducing narrative with an acute eye for the broader conclusion.' - Observer

Iain Martin has been editor of the Scotsman and of Scotland on Sunday, Deputy Editor of the Daily Telegraph, Deputy Editor of the European edition of the Wall Street Journal and a columnist at the Daily Mail. For BBC Radio 4 he has presented editions of What the Papers Say, Beyond Westminster and appeared on Any Questions. His first book, Making It Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS, and the Men who Blew Up the British Economy, was shortlisted for the 2013 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and won the Debut Book of the Year prize at the 2014 Political Book Awards.

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.

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