Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed
Many of us take it as a given that the Great Depression resulted from a confluence of inexorable forces beyond any one person or government's control. This title explains how it was the decisions taken by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of the economic meltdown.
With degrees in economics from the Universities of Cambridge and Harvard, Liaquat Ahamed has witnessed at close hand the way countrys' 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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780434015412 |
| ISBN 10 | 0434015415 |
| Title | Lords of Finance |
| Author | Liaquat Ahamed |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2009-04-30 |
| Number of pages | 576 |
| Prizes | Winner of Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award 2010, Winner of Pulitzer Prize for History 2010, Winner of Spear's Book Awards: Financial History Book of the Year 2009, Winner of Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2009, Short-listed for BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2009 |
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