Tyler Cowen (Marginal Revolution blog), along with Alex Tabarrok, has just launched Marginal Revolution University (hat tip: Graham Brownlow). The first course they are offering is Development Economics. This is probably the most important course any finance or economics students could take as it is all about why some economies have become wealthy whilst others have become poor. The course is a series of short videos, which are well worth watching. The first lecture is below; all other lectures can be accessed at Marginal Revolution University.
Michael Aldous and I had our book The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Captains of Industry published a few weeks ago. You can find out more about it and buy it at Cambridge University Press's website . It is also available at Amazon , Waterstones , and Barnes & Noble . The CEO has already been reviewed in The Sunday Times , The Observer and Financial Times .