Alex Brassey - Greed

Greed

Edited by

Alexis Brassey and Stephen Barber

Foreword by Nicola Horlick

Selection and editorial content Alexis Brassey and Stephen Barber 2009
Individual Chapters Contributors 2009
Foreword Nicola Horlick 2009

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There are numerous people who have helped in the production of this book not least the authors themselves who have produced a varied and stimulating collection of essays. We would also like to thank Nicola Horlick for writing the Foreword, Emily Bown and Paul Milner at Macmillan for their patience and support, Andrea Millar for her help with the index and Shirley Tan for her patient typesetting.

Stephen Barber is Senior Lecturer in Management at London South Bank University, Senior Research Fellow at the Global Policy Institute and has been visiting lecturer in political economy at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has spent fifteen years working in the City of Londons financial industry most recently as Head of Research for the stockbroker Talos Securities. A frequent contributor to and commentator in the financial press he writes a fortnightly column for the FTs Investment Adviser. He is a Member of the Securities Institute and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In addition to various articles and papers, Stephen has published three previous books: Political Strategy: Modern Politics in Contemporary Britain (2005); The City in Europe and the World (2005); The Geo-Politics of the City (2007).

Alexis Brassey is completing a PhD in Psychology at the University of London, UK. He is also Managing Director of Cramer Pelmont Solicitors, Senior Partner of The Schools Enterprise Partnership and Managing Director of Liverpool Residential Ltd. He formerly worked for ten years in the City of London as Assistant Vice-President of Citibank, Director of Lehman Brothers and Head of Yen trading at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. He is a qualified fund manager, teacher and holds an BSc (Hons) in Finance and Economics from Manchester University, an MA in Philosophy from Kings College London and a Postgraduate Diploma in Law.

Cary L. Cooper is Distinguished Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health, Lancaster University Management School and Pro Vice Chancellor at Lancaster University. He is the author of over 100 books, has written over 400 scholarly articles for academic journals, and is a frequent contributor to national newspapers, TV and radio. He is currently Founding Editor of the Journal of Organisational Behaviour and Co-Editor of the medical journal Stress & Health, Editor-in-Chief of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management; and the Editor of Whos Who in the Management Sciences. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, The Royal Society of Arts, The Royal Society of Medicine, The Royal Society of Health, British Academy of Management and an Academician of the Academy for the Social Sciences. Professor Cooper is the immediate past President of the British Academy of Management, is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and one of the first UK based Fellows of the (American) Academy of Management (having also won the 1998 Distinguished Service Award for his contribution to management science from the Academy of Management).

In 2001, Cary was awarded a CBE in the Queens Birthday Honours List for his contribution to organisational health. He has been an adviser to two UN agencies; the World Health Organisation and ILO; published a major report for the EUs European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Work Conditions on Stress Prevention in the Workplace; and was a special adviser to the Defence Committee of the House of Commons on their Duty of Care enquiry (200405). He is Chair of the Sunningdale Institute in the National School of Government in the Cabinet Office. He is also the President of the Institute of Welfare Officers, President of ISMA, President of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, an Ambassador of The Samaritans and Patron of the National Phobic Society.

Linda Freedman is the Keasbey Research Fellow in American Studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge. She studied English Literature at Magdalen College, Oxford before moving to Kings College, London, where she received an MA with distinction in English in 2004 and a PhD in 2007. She has recently completed the manuscript for a book on The Religious Imagination of Emily Dickinson and is currently pursuing a project on William Blake in the American mind. Her related interests and publications cover Romanticism, nineteenth and twentieth-century English and American literature, with a strong focus on poetry, transatlantic relations and the interdisciplinary connections between literature, theology and the visual arts.

Stephen Haseler is Professor of Government (since 1986) and Director of the Global Policy Institute at London Metropolitan University. He has taught at Georgetown University and George Mason University, and holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of Maryland-Baltimore in the United States. He has a long record of political involvement, having served as Deputy Mayor on the Greater London Council in the 1970s, helped to form the Social Democratic Party in 1981, and as a leading advocate of a British republic. He has a large publication record, including The Gaitskellites (1969), The Death of British Democracy (1976), The Tragedy of Labour (1981), Thatcher and the New Liberals (1989), The End of the House of Windsor