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""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 taken by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of the economic meltdown, the effects of which set the stage for World War II and reverberated for decades. In Lords of Finance, we meet the neurotic and enigmatic Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, the xenophobic and suspicious Emile Moreau of the Banque de France, the arrogant yet brilliant Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank, and Benjamin Strong of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, whose façade of energy and drive masked a deeply wounded and overburdened man. After the First World War, these central bankers attempted to reconstruct the world of international finance. Despite their differences, they were united by a common fear - that the greatest threat to capitalism was inflation - and by a common vision that the solution was to turn back the clock and return the world to the gold standard. For a brief period in the mid-1920s they appeared to have succeeded. The world's currencies were stabilized and capital began flowing freely across the globe. But beneath the veneer of boom-town prosperity, cracks started to appear in the financial system. The gold standard that all had believed would provide an umbrella of stability proved to be a straitjacket, and the world economy began that terrible downward spiral known as the Great Depression."--Jacket."
"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."@en
"With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of four men--Montagu Norman, Amile Moreau, Hjalmar Schacht, and Benjamin Strong--whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century."
"With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of four men--Montagu Norman, Amile Moreau, Hjalmar Schacht, and Benjamin Strong--whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century."@en
"Présentation des origines de la crise financière de 1929. L'auteur nous montre comment les choix de quelques banquiers ont détruit le monde économique prouvant ainsi la fragilité du système et la faillibilité de ses dirigeants."
"With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of the four men whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century."
"With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of the four men whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century."@en
"Investment manager extraordinaire Liaquat Ahamed details the economic collapse of the 1920s, focusing on four central bankers (Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, Banque de France's Emile Moreau, Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank, and Benjamin Strong of New York's Federal Reserve Bank) whose decision to reconstruct international finances and return the world to the gold standard ignited cataclysmic repercussions that culminated with the Great Depression of the 1930s."@en
"With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers portraits of four men--Montagu Norman, Amile Hilaire Emile Moreau, Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, and Benjamin Strong--whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century."
"With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of four men--Montagu Norman, Emile Moreau, Hjalmar Schacht, and Benjamin Strong--whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century."@en
"With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers portraits of four men--Montagu Norman, Emile Moreau, Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, and Benjamin Strong--whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century."@en

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"History"@en
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"Poveliteli finansov : bankiry perevernuvshie mir"
"Lords of finance the bankers who broke the world"@en
"Lords of finance the bankers who broke the world"
"Lords of finance : [1929, the great depression, and the bankers who broke the world]"
"Los Señores de las finanzas : los cuatro hombres que arruinaron el mundo"
"Lords of Finance the bankers who broke the world"
"Los señores de las finanzas : los cuatro hombres que arruinaron el mundo"@es
"Władcy pieniądza"@pl
"Die Herren des Geldes : wie vier Banker die Weltwirtschaftskrise auslösten und die Welt in den Bankrott trieben"
"Die Herren des Geldes : wie vier Bankiers die Weltwirtschaftskrise auslösten und die Welt in den Bankrott trieben"
"Die Herren des Geldes wie vier Bankiers die Weltwirtschaftskrise auslösten und die Welt in den Bankrott trieben"
"Lords of finance : the bankers who broke the world"@en
"Lords of finance : the bankers who broke the world"
"Les seigneurs de la finance : la crise de 1929, les banquiers qui ont ruiné le monde"
"Lords of finance"@en
"Lords of finance"
"Les seigneurs de la finance"
"Lords of finance: The bankers who broke the world"
"Los señores de las finanzas los cuatro hombres que arruinaron el mundo"@es
"Les seigneurs de la finance : la crise de 1929 : les banquiers qui ont ruiné le monde"

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