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Facebook ‘costs businesses dear’, BBC News Online, 11 September 2007.
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The History of the Laser by Mario Bertolotti.
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Lecture: ‘Leading By Omission’ by Ricardo Semler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management, 22 September 2005.
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Lecture: ‘Leading By Omission’ by Ricardo Semler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management, 22 September 2005.
The American Future: A History by Simon Schama, p. 308.
Transcript of Jimmy Carter’s Address to the Nation on Energy, Miller Centre of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, 18 April 1977.
Influence Science and Practice by Robert B. Cialdini, 22 September 2005.
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1833 Factory Act, The National Archives.
Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences by Dr H. Gardner.
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The American Future: A History by Simon Schama, p. 349.
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‘Mint warns against melting coins’, BBC News website, 12 May 2006.
‘Six billion copper coins missing’ by Peter Stebb, This Is Money, 24 April, 2007.
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‘King attacks banks delay in clearing cheques’ by Philip Thornton, Independent, 17 June 2004.
‘Waiting time for cheques to clear to be cut from next year’, Daily Telegraph website, 14 November 2006.
‘Bank deposit guarantee raised to £50,000 after Brown bows to pressure’ by Patrick Hosking, The Times, 3 October 2008.
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Management Powertools: A Guide to 20 of the Most Powerful Management Tools and Techniques
Ever Invented by Harry Onsman, p. 23.
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‘The week when the rumour mongers ran the asylum’ by Siobhan Kennedy, The Times, 20 March 2008.
‘No charges expected in HBOS share price inquiry’ by Martin Flanagan, Scotsman, 23 June 2008.
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson, p. 613.
‘Coca-Cola ad trades on secret recipe’ by Mark Sweney, Guardian, 7 July 2008.
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‘BA hit by record £270m price-fixing fines’ by Steve Hawkes, The Times, 1 August 2007.
‘Office of Fair Trading charges British Airways executives with price-fixing’ by Michael Herman, The Times, 7 August 2008.
‘BA and Qantas fined millions for price-fixing’ by Sophie Tedmanson, The Times, 28 October 2008.
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson, pp. 169–172.
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The Great Game of Business by Jack Stack, pp. 1, 2 and 3.
Management Powertools: A Guide to 20 of the Most Powerful Management Tools and Techniques Ever Invented by Harry Onsman, p.162.
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The 75 Greatest Management Decisions Ever Made… And Some of the Worst by Stuart Crainer, p. 194.
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‘Average cost of bringing up a child to 21 reaches £180,000’ by Rebecca Smithers,
Guardian, 10 November 2006.
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HM Treasury Press Release: ‘Graham Review of the small firms loan guarantee’, 17 February 2004.
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‘Unemployment: A Mental Health Issue’, The Jobs letter No. 24, 9 September 1995.
‘Raised on Welfare, the “Why Bother?” generation that doesn’t want to work’ by Benedict Brogan, Daily Mail, 21 April 2008.
‘Meet the families where no one’s worked for THREE generations - and they don’t care’ by Sadie
Nicholas and Diana Appleyard, Daily Mail, 21 March 2008.
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‘I never believed I was worth my $2.3 million bonus’ by David Cohen, Evening Standard, 20 October 2008.
‘Bank Governor Mervyn King launches unprecedented attack on “unattractive”
City bonus culture’ by Simon Duke, Daily Mail, 29 April 2008.
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson, p. 5.
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National Lottery website: Frequently Asked Questions.
Camelot Press Office: ‘Key Facts about The National Lottery’, 31 March 2007 (figures correct as at 7 July 2008).
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson, pp. 176, 185 and 190
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, p. 130.
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‘Free Agent Nation’ by Daniel H. Pink, Fast Company, Issue 12, September 1997.
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Credit Action Debt: Facts and Figures, compiled 1 December 2008.
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Would you pass the 11-plus?’, BBC News Online, 27 March 2006.
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson, pp. 278, 279 and 280.
Grameen Bank website.
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‘The Credit Card Industry: A History’ by Lewis Mandell, p. 26
Credit Action Debt: Facts and Figures, compiled 1 December 2008.
‘Barclay chief’s gaffe recalls Ratner howler’ by Bill Wilson, BBC News Online, 17 October 2003.
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson, pp. 246, 259 and 267.
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‘Northern Rock besieged by savers’, BBC News Online, 17 September 2007.
‘£50bn bid to save UK banks’ by Patrick Wintour, Jill Treanor and Ashley Seager, Guardian, 8 October 2008.
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson, p. 237
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson, pp. 227 and 228.
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson, p. 153.
Office of National Statistics figures: RP04 Retail Prices Index.
‘Economy tables: Economic growth, interest rates and inflation history, unemployment’,
Thisismoney.co.uk, 4 December 2008.
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‘UK manufacturing in sharp decline’, BBC News Online, 9 December 2008.
‘The facts about UK manufacturing’, BBC News Online, 18 March 2002.
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‘UK savings rate sinks to 49-year low as growth falters’ by David Prosser, Independent, 28 June 2008.
I.O.U.S.A: One Nation. Under Stress. In Debt by Addison Wiggin and Kate Incontrera, pp. 43 and 72.
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Floor Statement: Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND).
During Floor Debate on FY 2009: Senate Budget Resolution, 12 March 2008.
Credit Action Debt: Facts and Figures, compiled 1 December 2008.
I.O.U.S.A: One Nation. Under Stress. In Debt by Addison Wiggin and Kate Incontrera, p. 82.
The American Future: A History by Simon Schama, p. 308.
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Credit Action: Debt: Facts and Figures, compiled 1 December 2008.
‘Runaway debts leave thousands high and dry’, Telegraph, 26 July 2006.
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson, p. 59.
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United States Postal Service: Postal News Press Release: New Study Reveals 724,000 ‘Americans
Rely On Ebay Sales For Income’, 21 July 2005.
“Virgin Mary” toast fetches $28,000’, BBC News Online, 23 November, 2004.
eBay.co.uk Media Centre Fast Facts: About eBay.
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson, pp. 39 and 40.
‘Competition Commission to investigate doorstep lending’, Fair Investment website, 22 April 2005.
Competition Commission: Home Credit inquiry Final Report, 28 April 2006.
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‘China Begins Huge Reforestation Effort’, Xinhua News Agency, 15 May 2002.
I.O.U.S.A One Nation. Under Stress. In Debt by Addison Wiggin and Kate Incontrera, p. 66.
CIA World Fact Book 2007: World Trade Imbalances.
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The Effect of China’s One-Child Family Policy after 25 Years by Therese Hesketh, Ph.D., Li Lu,
M.D. and Zhu Wei Xing, M.P.H.
The New England Journal of Medicine: Vol. 353, 15 September 2005.
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Cornell University ILR School: ‘Hidden Slaves: Forced Labor in the United States’, September 2004.
‘7 Charged in N.Y. Ring Exploiting Deaf Immigrants’ by John J. Goldman, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 1997.
Lecture: ‘Leading By Omission’ by Ricardo Semler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management, 22 September 2005.
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson, p. 108.
‘Zimbabwe’s inflation rate surges to 231,000,000%’by Chris McGreal, Guardian, 9 October 2008.
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‘The global housing boom’, The Economist, 16 June 2005.
‘The bubble bursts’, The Economist, 10 April 2008.
Channel 4Cutting Edge: ‘Bobski the Builder’, broadcast 16 October 2008.
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Barclays Media Centre Press Release: ‘Leap year woes: small businesses will spend the extra day chasing late payments of £8.5 billion’, 29 February 2008.
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Committee on Oversight and Government Report: ‘Reform Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Identified by Oversight Committee Investigations’, 3 October 2008.
Documentary: ‘Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers’ by Robert Greenwald, 29 October 2006.
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‘Quality and Total Quality Management’, Encyclopedia of Management, ed. Marilyn M. Helms, Gale Cengage, 2006.
‘Toyota braced for historic loss’, BBC News Online, 22 December 2008.
W. Edward Deming, Wikipedia website.