Lords of finance: 1929, The Great Depression, And The Bankers Who Broke The World
Award winning non-fiction, Business and economics, Economics
Human-narrated audio
Summary
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. Liaquat Ahamed reveals that it was the decisions made by a small number of central… bankers that were the primary cause of that economic meltdown. 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. Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for history. 2010.