Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed
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.
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 *
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 *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099493082 |
| ISBN 10 | 009949308X |
| Title | Lords of Finance |
| Author | Liaquat Ahamed |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2010-01-07 |
| 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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