Who’s Buying Up Britain? A Study of Sovereign Wealth Funds
With an international credit crunch hamstringing many Western entrepreneurs, a new wave of investment is flooding the U.K., largely from the Middle East and Asia. This program focuses on sovereign wealth funds and their role in what many see as a fi...
The Chewing Gum War: A Case Study in Market Share
Cadbury Schweppes, Britain’s biggest confectioner, has ventured into the chewing gum market—taking on the might of Wrigley’s, the long-time global industry leader. This program examines Cadbury’s multipronged product launch and Wrigley’s c...
Hayek and the Free Market: Masters of Money - Three Economists Who Changed the World
According to conventional wisdom, the 2008 financial crisis happened because markets were not regulated enough. But what if the opposite is true? What if excessive government meddling in business caused the crash? To better understand that avenue of...
Karl Marx and Marxian Economics: Masters of Money - Three Economists Who Changed the World
As long as economic highs and lows continue in what many view as a destructive global pattern, and as long as the gap between rich and poor produces tensions across the world, a perceived basis for anticapitalist thought will most likely persist. Is...