A collection of Professor Douglas McWilliams' lectures from his tenure as Gresham's Mercers' School Memorial Professor of Commerce. These lectures were delivered between 2012 and 2014.Professor McWilliams, the founder and Chief Executive of CEBR, one of the UK's leading specialist economics consultancies. For his lecture series, he chose to tackle Globalisation, both in retrospect and looking forward. This series is a masterwork of real world economics, accessible to beginners and rich enough for experts.
Also Included are Professor McWilliams' signature off topic lectures. Freed from his theme, the professor alights on topics as diverse as London's transport needs, the correlation between economic and sporting success and the necessity of Cricket to founding a democratic state.