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Boom And Bust

Robert Oakeshott DEVIL TAKE THE HINDMOST: A HISTORY OF FINANCIAL SPECULATION by Edward Chancellor Macmillan, £20, pp. 386 Although short-sellers are invariably blamed for the......

The Unscrambling Of Africa

Ronald Mutebi AFRICA IN CHAOS I n May 1963, Africa's leaders gathered in Addis Ababa to put their signatures to the charter that established the Organisation of African Unity.......