Graham Bannock is a graduate of the London School of Economics and author of several books on finance and business. He has worked in market research for Ford and Rover, and in economic research at the OECD and the Economist Intelligence Unit, of which he was managing director. He is now with Bannock Consulting Ltd., an economic research company in London. He is co-author of The Penguin Dictionary of Economics, and two of his other books, The Juggernauts: the Age of the Giant Corporation and How to Survive the Slump, are also published by Penguin.
William Manser is a graduate of Cambridge University and read International Law and Economics at Geneva University. He is an economic and financial author and consultant. He has been Economic Adviser to Baring Brothers, the British Institute of Management, the British Civil Engineering Federation and the International Iron and Steel Institute. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce, the Royal Statistical Society and the Institute of Management Consultants. His other books include Britain in Balance (Penguin 1973), The British Economic Base, The Financial Role of Multinational Enterprise, Control from Brussels and many other writings.