Lords of finance : the bankers who broke the world
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Lords of finance : the bankers who broke the world
AUTHOR:
Ahamed, Liaquat
ISBN:
9781594201820
9780143116806
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : Penguin Press, 2009
PHYSICAL_DESC:
564 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
GENERAL_NOTE:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [533]-544) and index
ABSTRACT:
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 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.
SUBJECT:
| Capitalists and financiers -- Biography |
| Bankers -- Biography |
BIBSUMMARY:
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 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.