OVERVIEW
Oliver Wyman & FTChinese Business Books of the Year 2019 were launched at FTChinese Annual Forum.
The forum is FT’s flagship conference in China. This year, themed “Present & Prospect: Eyes on 2020, a New Era for Crossover Innovation”, it gathers hundreds of high-profile industry players, including business executives, entrepreneurs, scholars and investors to debate cutting-edge topics such as artificial intelligence, fintech and the digital economy, all of which are central to global corporate planning and future enhancement.
Peter Reynolds, Partner and Head of Greater China, joined by Tracy Zhang, Publisher of FTChinese, introduces three books that fuel readers’ learning of economic systems, business cycles and investment philosophy.
Peter Reynolds accepted an exclusive interview with FT and share the highlights of the books
Oliver Wyman & FTChinese Business Books of the Year 2019
Wu describes in detail the key figures, events and meanings in agriculture, industry, astronomy, geography, biology, mathematics and other fields for tens of thousands of years. It systematically expounds the evolution of human civilization since the wise man.
The legendary investor shows how to identify and master the cycles that govern the markets. This book will teach you what cycles are, what causes their rise and fall, and thus how to tell what investment moves are most likely to succeed.
Rajan offers up a magnificent big-picture framework for understanding how these three forces--the state, markets, and our communities--interact, why things begin to break down, and how we can find our way back to a more secure and stable plane.