ANY OTHER BUSINESS:LIFE IN AND OUT OF THE CITY: COLLECTED WRITINGS FROM THE SPECTATOR AND ELSEWHERE
Book ID/图书代码： 04320314B73186
English Summary/英文概要： Since 1992, the financial and business life of the UK and many other parts of the world has changed beyond all recognition. The culture of that change has been expertly and insightfully charted in the writings of Martin Vander Weyer. Observing from the inside and the outside, having spent 15 years as an investment banker at the heart of the British financial establishment and in Brussels and the Far East before forging a creative path as a journalist, Martin Vander Weyer offers a unique critical perspective on the events and developments that have brought us to where we are today.
From ‘Big Bang’ of 1986 that irrevocably changed the culture of banking – and of the UK – through to the global financial crisis of 2008 and the subsequent banking scandals, the people, ideas and very existence of the City have been under scrutiny as never before. In this eclectic and entertaining collection, Martin Vander Weyer brings a sharp eye and a very personal style to bear on often controversial topics, alongside recollections of life in the City and dissections of the current state of play; deliciously evocative accounts of travel, culture, food and daily life; and, very occasionally, reflections on the travails of middle age. Beautifully written, this collection offers an entirely unique, sometimes surprising, but always beguiling perspective on our changing times.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 英國財經專欄作家馬丁．凡德．韋爾文選
全球商業文化變遷20年觀察精華
「倫敦最睿智、最有趣的商業評論家。」
－－現任倫敦市長鮑里斯．強森(Boris Johnson)
◎走訪倫敦、巴黎、布魯塞爾、伊斯坦堡、台灣、東京、上海、香港，作者以特有的英式幽默寫下對這些城市的觀察及個人經驗，談論各國經濟、政治與文化。
◎作者的專欄〈其他事項〉擁有廣大讀者，他走訪世界各大城市，提供關於商業變遷與眾不同的觀點，具批判性卻又情感真摯。
自1992年起，全球經濟商業文化產生劇烈變化，而這一連串的變化過程都記錄在韋爾的筆下。他曾在英國、布魯塞爾以及遠東擔任金融核心投資銀行家15年，之後成為記者，長期於英國各大報及雜誌發表文章，談論全球經濟發展與重大事件，為《旁觀者》雜誌(Spectator)專欄寫作多年，擁有獨特、具批判性的觀點。
從1986年英國金融大改革到2008全球金融海嘯，以及接踵而至的銀行醜聞，人民、想法以及都市的存在受到前所未有的矚目。在這本精彩、充滿娛樂性的文集中，韋爾以犀利的觀點及獨具個人特色的寫作風格處理爭議性的題目、解剖當今現況，也記錄令人回味無窮的旅行、文化、食物以及日常。(Ramona)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 馬丁．凡德．韋爾(Martin Vander Weyer)為英國財經記者，《旁觀者》雜誌商業版編輯、〈其他事項〉(Any Other Business) 專欄作家，同時定期於《每日電訊報》(Daily Telegraph)及英國各大報撰稿。著有《墜落的老鷹：巴克萊銀行的衰落》(Falling Eagle: The Decline of Barclays Bank) (2000)、《財富之矛：藍血盜賊的故事，1920年代最臭名昭彰的城市醜聞內幕》(Fortune’s Spear: The Story of the Blue-Blooded Rogue Behind the Most Notorious City Scandal of the 1920s)。
Martin Vander Weyer is Business Editor and Any Other Business columnist of the Spectator and a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph and other national papers. He is the author of Falling Eagle: The Decline of Barclays Bank (2000), editor and principal author of Closing Balances: Business Obituaries from the Daily Telegraph (2006), and author of Fortune’s Spear: The Story of the Blue-Blooded Rogue Behind the Most Notorious City Scandal of the 1920s (E&T, 2011).
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