Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World Liaquat Ahamed
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
"Each in his own way illuminates the national psyche of his time. Lords of finance: the bankers who broke the world. It's worth your time to read the book. When asked to elaborate by moderator Liaquat Ahamed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Lords of Finance” and a New America director, Lind said that these two traditions have always been self-conscious factions, but that tracing their genealogy through time “will make you dizzy” since they do not follow a tidy left-right, liberal-conservative, Democratic-Republican or blue state -red state breakdown. The world economy cratered between October 1929, when the stock market crashed, and July 1932. The Lords of Finance is useful to history buffs, to economists and to any one who wants to be entertained and to learn. Review via New York Journal of Books It tells you something of our benighted age that histories of central banking are suddenly rife, from Liquat Ahamed ;s Lords of Finance : The Bankers Who Broke the World . He saw what the four Lords of Finance did, leading them to the subtitle of the book: The Bankers who Broke the World. Thank you for inviting me tonight, and for enabling an ongoing conversation in the very challenging times we live in. Bruce Morgan, editor, Tufts Medicine. Author, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World. Lords Of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke The World By Liaquat Ahamed | 16 May 2009. The author of The Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, Liaquat Ahamed, was at the Academy as a David Rubenstein Distinguished Visitor on October 1. It traces http://www.amazon.com/Lords-Finance-Bankers-Broke-World/dp/0143116800. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke The World by Liaquat Ahamed. The Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, by Liaquat Ahamed. One of his picks was Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, the Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Great Depression by Liaquat Ahamed, published in 2009.