Open Finance
The world of finance can seem daunting - especially when you're struggling with massive problems: spiraling debt, collapsing businesses, the need to raise revenue or remain competitive. In this series of Open Finance, experts from The Open University Business School share some of the lessons of the past - and how they might hold a route to the future.
Certain thing
Introduced to fight Bonaparte, Jane Frecknell-Hughes explains why, all these years later, we're still paying income tax.
Risk and reward
Our trip through history takes us from Jane Austen through Joe Lyons. Janette Rutterford offers a brief history of investment.
What money does to us
Companies are increasingly vulnerable to powerful financial institutions seeking short tem profit. Pauline Gleadle examines the ins and outs of financialisation.
![George Soros [Photo by Jeff Ooi under attribution creative commons licence]](images/georgesoros_progfront_12346.jpg)
Midweek blues
Martin Upton explains why it wasn't only George Soros for whom it was a far-from-Black Wednesday.
Meltdown
Devendra Kodwani looks to the history of the Indian cotton industry to consider what we can learn from the history of business collapses.
Slowing down
Can we ease the pain of the downturn by using lessons from the past? Malcolm Prowle guides us through the recession.
Content last updated: 10/09/2009
