Vicky Pryce: 4 books
Why Women Need Quotas
(Provocations)
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Vicky Pryce's motorbike-riding mother wanted to study physics at university, but her family told her it was impossible for a woman. She was determined that her daughter would have the opportunities she hadn't - and the young Vicky went on to forge a glittering career as an economist, with high-profile...
Prisonomics
Behind Bars in Britain's Failing Prisons
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
In March 2013, Vicky Pryce was sentenced to eight months in prison for accepting her ex-husband's penalty points on her driving licence some ten years earlier. After a very public trial, she was sent first to the notorious Holloway and then to East Sutton Park, an open prison in Kent. Inside, she...
Greekonomics
The Euro Crisis and Why Politicians Don't Get It
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
The eurozone is in crisis. Spiralling debts, defaulting banks, high unemployment - the European dream of a united union appears to be over. All fingers point to the corrupt and greedy PIIGs: Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain. Profligate governments have exploited the system, squandered the...
It's The Economy, Stupid
Economics for Voters
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Pollsters are constantly worrying about our perceptions of politicians. What do their other halves look like? Who looks best when eating a bacon sandwich? Should they even be eating bacon sandwiches in the first place? For the voter, though, it all comes down to one thing: the economy. While good...