Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
By Liaquat Ahamed.
Description
With a keen sense of history and compelling narrative skills, Liaquat Ahamed gives us a vivid and dramatic account of four men whose actions led to the world economic collapse of the late 1920s.Many of us presume that the Great Depression resulted from a confluence of inexorable forces beyond any one person's or government's control. In fact, as economist Liaquat Ahamed explains, it was decisions taken by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of the economic meltdown.Meet the neurotic and enigmatic Montagu Norman of the Bank of England; the xenophobic and s...
ISBN(s)
0434015415, 9780434015412
