Business/economic illiteracy

May 16, 2011 19:30

Channel 4 news just really annoyed me with a piece on Boots - paying little tax on a large operating profit ( Read more... )

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vectorious May 16 2011, 19:35:12 UTC
A good place to start would be some fun-to-read economics books - my favourite is probably the Undercover Economist by Tim Hartford

Naked economics by Charles Wheelan - is a good place to follow up.

After that I would try something like the business sections of papers. I got a lot of mine through accountancy, and then being in business (having been in the NAO and private sector, it can be quite a shock in some ways, and curiously similar in others). You might invest in a copy or two of the FT and read some of the (generally quite well written) comment pieces.

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vectorious May 16 2011, 19:56:36 UTC
Or reading the economist business section - most of which is online

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