TED talks make the work of academics and thinkers accessible to wide audiences. Why do we have economic prosperity? Why are some economies more prosperous than others? In the TED talk below, Niall Ferguson gives an entertaining and provocative 18-minute lecture where he identifies six "killer apps" which gave us economic prosperity.
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 .