A groundbreaking management book to enable managers and their companies to cope with and thrive in this age of uncertainty and great change, by one of the country#s leading business authors. In this fascinating and instructive collection, fifteen influential economists including Charles Goodhart, Roger Bootle, Samuel Brittan and John Kay look at the major economic issues facing the world today. Ranging from monetary policy and world trade to environmental matters, the rise and fall of inflation and the role of the economist in dealing with competition policy, these up-to-the-minute essays review the major economic developments and ideas of the last fifty years. Looking forward, they then give a range of persuasively argued and sometimes conflicting views on where economics is now, and where it could # and should # be going. Compiled and edited by Jim Hirst, The Challenge of Change is published in association with the Society of Business Economists, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2003.