Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
- ISBN-10
- 159420182X
- ISBN-13
- 9781594201820
- Series
- Lords of Finance
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 564
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Liaquat Ahamed
Description
Argues that the stock market crash of 1929 and subsequent Depression occurred as a result of poor decisions on the part of four central bankers who jointly attempted to reconstruct international finance by reinstating the gold standard.
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- 2011-09-30
- 576 pages
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