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Lords of finance: the bankers who broke the world

By Ahamed , Liaquat

Book information

Publisher
Inc., Penguin Usa
Year
2014
ISBN
9781440697968, 1440697965
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1383562 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Business;BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Corporate & Busines

Description

Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize "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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