After hours
The 80s finance comedy you should watch instead of ‘Trading Places’
Swap an outdated movie with open outcry pits and blackface for film history’s greatest advisory satire
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Review: An illiberal history of ‘The Economist’
Alexander Zevin’s history of the liberal institution exposes many failings but fails to recognise its skill at digesting business news
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Review: Nobel winners tackle incentive myths
In Good Economics for Hard Times, Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee show that people do not behave as models would have us believe
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Review: DeLorean biopic drives home a cautionary message
Driven, starring Jason Sudeikis and Lee Pace, finds the comedy in John DeLorean’s 1980s cocaine bust
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Review: US no longer the land of free markets, writes NYU professor
Thomas Philippon claims in ‘The Great Reversal’ that monopolies and oligopolies are crippling market freedom
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Why George Soros is more than just a rich hedge fund manager
The former hedge fund manager who broke the Bank of England is a true polymath
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Review: A Silicon Valley VC king who is tone-deaf on culture
Andreessen Horowitz co-founder's latest business bible is awkwardly written and sometimes jarring on diversity
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Review: Not just another Lehman Brothers documentary
There are plenty of financial crisis movies but the moral failings at the heart of ‘Inside Lehman Brothers’ are consistently compelling
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Review: Champagne-spraying celebs lift 1MDB documentary
‘The PM, the Playboy and the Wolf of Wall Street’ is eye-popping but not as good as the book
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High-speed trading film is worth more than a millisecond of your time
Strong performances from Jesse Eisenberg and co lift ‘The Hummingbird Project’
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Review: Weimar Germany’s answer to bitcoin
A British Museum exhibition explores 'notgeld', colourful paper money issued by local authorities
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Product placements disrupt Glamour podcast’s slick production
Women need personal finance advice, but four ads in 30 minutes is a bridge loan too far
Review: 1MDB book is a whale of a tale
The most eye-popping aspect of the scandal described in Billion Dollar Whale is the alleged scheme's alleged reach
Hustlers finds perfect victim in greedy bankers
Film about striptease artists ripping off financiers concedes too much moral high ground
Greece’s crisis was a tragedy — and a preventable one
Journalists for Bloomberg and Kathimerini had a front-row seat to the Euro crisis that devastated the peripheral nation
How to talk to your kids about Marxism
Stolen, by the New Statesman's economics editor, is a paean to democratic socialism that is weak on detail but difficult to dismiss outright
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Despite US disdain for ‘the costs of socialism’, the Swedish model works
British journalist's take on why his adopted country is not the socialist caricature some perceive
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Review: ‘Getting into a top university, it isn’t good enough’
BBC Two doc How To Break Into The Elite is hard to watch, but necessary
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Bank of England celebrates 325th birthday by opening the vaults
Central bank's museum celebrates with an interesting and surprisingly candid exhibit
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Review: Biography of legendary Economist editor is worthy of its subject
The prose in US conservative finance writer James Grant's biography of the influential Victorian sparkles
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