Who Runs Britain?

And Who's to Blame for the Economic Mess? Ein Buch zur Banken- und Wirtschaftskrise aus britischer Sicht.

Informationen zum Autor Robert Peston is the BBC's Business Editor. Prior to joining the BBC! he was Political Editor and Financial Editor of the Financial Times! City Editor of the Sunday Telegraph and a columnist for the New Statesman and Sunday Times (inter alia). He has won numerous awards for his journalism! including Journalist of the Year and Scoop of the Year (twice) from the Royal Television Society! Performer of the Year from the Broadcasting Press Guild! Broadcaster of the Year and Journalist of the Year from the Wincott Foundation and Business Journalist of the Year from the London Press Club. Peston has published two critically acclaimed books! WHO RUNS BRITAIN?! his best-selling account of who is to blame for the economic and financial crisis of 2007-9! and BROWN'S BRITAIN! a biography of Gordon Brown and analysis of the New Labour government. His prize-winning blog! which has more than 800!000 readers! can be found at www.bbc.co.uk/robertpeston. He is the founder of Speakers for Schools (www.speakers4schools.org)! a pro bono educational service which organises free talks from inspirational speakers for students at state schools. He is a trustee of the Education and Employers Taskforce. He is married to the writer Sian Busby. You can follow Robert on twitter at www.Twitter.com/Peston Klappentext Award-winning journalist and BBC Business Editor Robert Peston lifts the lid on the credit crunch and the rise of the super-rich. This No 1 bestseller weaves a story that's rich in extraordinary characters and outrageous feats of economic bravado and addresses the widening gap between the super-rich and the rest of us. It explores and explodes the myth that the financial creativity of those who are amassing these vast fortunes is good for the wider economy and for all of us. Whether you're a financial expert or just have a bank account! WHO RUNS BRITAIN? is essential reading.

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Robert Peston is the BBC's Business Editor, who has broadcast and published a series of exclusive stories about the global financial crisis and the Credit Crunch. In 2008. he won the Royal Television Society's awards for Journalist of the Year, Specialist Journalist of the Year and Scoop of the Year, the London Press Club's Business Journalist of the Year Award, the Broadcasting Press Guild's Award for Performer of the Year in a non-acting role and the Wincott Foundations awards for Broadcaster of the Year and Online Journalist of the Year. The previous year, he won the Royal Television Society's Scoop of the Year award (for his exclusive on Northern Rock seeking emergency financial help from the Bank of England) and also the Wincott Award for Business News/Current Affairs Programme of the Year. He was Journalist of the Year in the Business Journalism of the Year Awards for 2007/8. Peston has published two critically acclaimed books, Brown's Britain - a biography of the British prime minister, Gordon Brown - and Who Runs Britain?, his best-selling account of who's to blame for the economic mess we find ourselves in. His prize-winning blog can be found at www.bbc.co.uk/robertpeston. Peston was previously the Sunday Telegraph's City Editor, in charge of its Business and Money Sections, where he won the Wincott prize for financial journalism. In the 1990s, he was political editor, financial editor and head of investigations at the Financial Times, and he won the "What the Papers Say" award for investigative journalism while at the FT. His prize-winning blog can be found at www.bbc.co.uk/robertpeston. You can also follow Robert on twitter at www.twitter.com/Peston

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Award-winning journalist and BBC Business Editor Robert Peston lifts the lid on the credit crunch and the rise of the super-rich. This No 1 bestseller weaves a story that's rich in extraordinary characters and outrageous feats of economic bravado and addresses the widening gap between the super-rich and the rest of us. It explores and explodes the myth that the financial creativity of those who are amassing these vast fortunes is good for the wider economy and for all of us. Whether you're a financial expert or just have a bank account, WHO RUNS BRITAIN? is essential reading.