The Penguin Guide to Finance - Softcover

Finance may not be easy, but it influences all of our lives. Yet most outsiders, even investors and businesspeople, find the subject baffling. Now help is at hand. As the former head of the FT's Lex Column, Hugo Dixon knows how to make complex concepts accessible. He is also on top of the latest developments in financial markets. Here he explains both standard financial theory and the technology driven concepts that have brought such enormous changes in the last few years. Dixon reveals how the same principles apply to individual companies and whole economies, while worked examples let readers put theory into practice. Finance really is now everybody's business, and this is the ideal introductory overview.

Hugo Dixon has been a leader writer and telecommunications correspondent for the FINANCIAL TIMES. From 1994 to 1999 he edited that paper's famous Lex column. In 1999 he co-founded a web based financial analysis company, breakingviews.com.