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Lords of Finance: 1929, the Great Depression, and the Bankers Who Broke the World

Lords of Finance: 1929, the Great Depression, and the Bankers Who Broke the World

by Liaquat Ahamed (Author)

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Synopsis

This has happened before. The current financial crisis has only one parallel: the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression of the 1930s, which crippled the future of an entire generation and set the stage for the horrors of the Second World War. Yet the economic meltdown could have been avoided, had it not been for the decisions taken by a small number of central bankers. In "Lords of Finance", we meet these men, the four bankers who truly broke the world: the enigmatic Norman Montagu of the bank of England, Benjamin Strong of the NY Federal Reserve, the arrogant yet brilliant Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbanlk and the xenophobic Emile Moreau of the Banque de France. Their names were lost to history, their lives and actions forgotten, until now. Liaquat Ahamed tells their story in vivid and gripping detail, in a timely and arresting reminder that individuals - their ambitions, limitations and human nature - lie at the very heart of global catastrophe.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 576
 Publisher: Windmill Books
Published: 07 Jan 2010
ISBN 10: 009949308X
ISBN 13: 9780099493082
Book Overview: Samuel Johnson shortlisted & FT/Goldman Sachs WINNER: a vivid, dramatic account of the four men whose personal and professional actions led to the world economic collapse of the late 1920s.
 Prizes: Winner of Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award 2010 and Pulitzer Prize for History 2010 and Spear's Book Awards: Financial History Book of the Year 2009 and Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2009. Shortlisted for BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2009.

Media Reviews
NIALL FERGUSON: 'Highly readable... [Ahamed] cannot have foreseen how timely his book would be. * FT *
ROBERT PESTON: 'Compelling and convincing...humanises the world's descent into economic chaos.' * Sunday Times *
'Fascinating... Anyone who wants to understand the origins of the economic world we live in would do well to read this book...brisk, original, incisive and entertaining. * Michael Beschloss *
One of those rare books - authoritative, readable and relevant - that puts the story back into history... a spellbinding, richly human [and] cinematic narrative. * Strobe Talbott *
Absorbing [and] provocative, not least because it is still relevant. * The Economist *
Author Bio
With degrees in economics from the Universities of Cambridge and Harvard, Liaquat Ahamed has witnessed at close hand the way countries' economic policy is made and executed as a professional economist at the World Bank during the 1980s. He has since worked as an investment manager, with a ring-side seat at a sequence of financial crises, from the collapse of the European Monetary System in the 1990s to the current 'sub-prime' economic downturn. This is his first book.