Lords of Finance : The Bankers Who Broke the World (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Paperback - 2009
by Ahamed, Liaquat
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As another financial crisis makes headlines today, the year 1929 remains the benchmark for true economic mayhem. Ahamed lays the blame for the 1929 meltdown on a small number of central bankers--men as prominent in their time as Alan Greenspan is today.
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- Title Lords of Finance : The Bankers Who Broke the World (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- Author Ahamed, Liaquat
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 576
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2009-12-29
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # GRP96540278
- ISBN 9780143116806 / 0143116800
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.4 x 1.3 in (20.57 x 13.72 x 3.30 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Capitalists and financiers, Bankers
- Dewey Decimal Code 332.109
Summary
"A magisterial work...You can't help thinking about the economic crisis we're living through now." --The New York Times Book Review
It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions made by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of that economic meltdown, the effects of which set the stage for World War II and reverberated for decades. As yet another period of economic turmoil makes headlines today, Lords of Finance is a potent reminder of the enormous impact that the decisions of central bankers can have, their fallibility, and the terrible human consequences that can result when they are wrong.
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- New York Times Book Review, 12/27/2009, Page 20