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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Lords of FinanceAs 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.
Full description- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Published: 29 December 2009
- Format: Paperback 564 pages
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- Categories: Economic History | Finance | Banking | Business & Management | History: Specific Events & Topics
- ISBN 13: 9780143116806 ISBN 10: 0143116800
- Sales rank: 27,396
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Full description for Lords of Finance
"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.
